January 21, 2015 | Quote

Obama is Right: ISIS is Being Stopped


Meanwhile, in Syria, ISIS hasn't made major gains. While it's still firmly in control of territory including Raqaa, its eastern stronghold, the group has had trouble expanding its holdings, in part because Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad is finally taking them on.

“All of their major offensives since the airstrikes began (Kobane, Dayr al-Zawr Air Base, Sha'ir Gas Field) have either been stalemates or ended in outright defeat once they squared off against Assad's troops,” Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, a senior fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, told me. ISIS has made some smaller gains in Syria, Gartenstein-Ross allows, but they aren't strategic game-changers.

So Obama is absolutely right. ISIS's advance is being stopped, and American airpower deserves some of the credit.

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