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Patrick Cockburn, whose Middle Eastern reporting and analysis I follow closely, has a grim round-up of the recent fighting in Syria and Iraq. His key line: “President Obama’s strategy of containing the Islamic militants in Iraq and Syria is in ruins…” And the problem is that, in our world, the response to such a situation is almost invariable not less, but more. The pressure for escalation in Washington if things continue to go badly in the Middle East will be almost unbearable. TomDispatch
Posted on: Wed, 08 Oct 2014 19:09:14 +0000

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