Obama Is Trying To Impose A Radical New Order On The US's Middle Eastern Allies

The Center for New American Security, a Washington think tank, has produced a strategy for the war against the Islamic State (ISIS). 

While the paper, authored by Marc Lynch, professor of politics at George Washington University and senior fellow at CNAS, presents itself as a set of new recommendations, it really just re-packages the White House’s current policy.

But this is a very useful exercise, as it makes explicit a number of assumptions that the administration is consciously playing down. By exposing the White House’s full thinking to the light of day, the paper inadvertently highlights glaring deficiencies in the president's strategy.

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