Obama isn’t trying to destroy ISIS. He’s trying to contain it.

Posted on AllSides August 10th, 2014
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"Ultimately, there's not going to be an American military solution to this problem," President Obama said in his press conference on the Iraq crisis on Saturday. "There's going to have to be an Iraqi solution." This is the key line to understand if you want to grasp the administration's approach to Iraq — and why the goals of the US military campaign are more narrow than you might think.

The American objectives for Obama's airstrikes in Iraq are very clear, and very limited. American airpower will protect Iraqi Kurdistan from...

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