September 16, 2014 | National Review Online
From No Strategy to Sorry Strategy
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Three cheers for the excellent post by FDD’s Ben Weinthal on the importance of factoring Iran’s promotion of terrorism into any effective response to the jihad.
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At the moment, IS and al Qaeda are lethal rivals, but that won’t last forever. Tom Joscelyn and Bill Roggio at the Long War Journal have reported that serious efforts have been made to broker a reconciliation. They’ve been unsuccessful so far, mainly due to the enormous jihadist egos and ambitions of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and Ayman al-Zawahiri, emirs of IS and al Qaeda, respectively. Nevertheless, history teaches us that when the United States gets involved, competing jihadists – even Sunnis and Shia, for all their internecine hatred – pull together against us. They now have good reason to realign.
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