Paul Chehade - It's time to review the foreign policy of the United States - Islamic State ISIS.

Paul Chehade - It's time to review the foreign policy of the United States - Islamic State ISIS. The United States is in war with the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL consider violence be part of their ideology. For Al Qaeda, violence is a means to... More

Paul Chehade - It's time to review the foreign policy of the United States - Islamic State ISIS. The United States is in war with the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL consider violence be part of their ideology. For Al Qaeda, violence is a means to an ends; for ISIS, it is an end in itself. We need to manage not just our expectations. Our rhetoric, too, matters more than we think. When we declare that we will defeat ISIS, what do we mean? What is a sufficient condition to declare victory? Unless we define that condition, we risk involving ourselves in yet another unending conflict. The problem begin when The United State regime change policy in Syria was directly responsible for the rise of ISIS over these past three years. The neocons who want us to get tougher on ISIS, including a US attack on Syria, are the same ones who not long ago demanded that we support groups like ISIS to overthrow the Assad government in Syria. US-trained and funded “moderates” from the Free Syrian A Less