CAIRO (AP) - This is the fundamental contradiction, after Paris: Few in the West want to send ground troops to Syria and Iraq to battle the Islamic State group, but it may be even harder to find anyone who thinks airstrikes alone will defeat the radical extremists. So far, policy makers and experts tend to focus on incremental steps, and indeed the initial French response was more airstrikes. President Barack Obama on Monday insisted that the current strategy "is ultimately is going to work," and rejected any suggestion that American soldiers should be deployed. But if IS carries through with its threats of further attacks on the West, such an approach may soon be unsustainable, as public...
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