President Obama has no choice now. If he wants to defeat the Islamic State, he’ll have to become a real war leader. He may not like it, but putting troops on the ground is the surest way to win this war. That’s nothing new. Paris was horrific, but no game-changer. The game changed in 2014, when the Islamic State broke out from Syria, drove the Iraqi military from the field and proclaimed a worldwide caliphate. The moment the terrorist group established a territorial state in Iraq, it posed two grave threats to the U.S. and its friends and allies. A Sunni terrorist-controlled state in the heart of the Middle East was guaranteed to create friction that will lead,...
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