Column: Coalition Against Islamic State Must Include Iran

President Barack Obama is right to focus on the responsibility of the Sunni Muslim world to attack and expunge the cancer that is the militant group calling itself the Islamic State (IS). The group’s perversion of Islam in the service of its barbaric goals needs to be confronted first and foremost by those for whom it purports to speak. But to succeed, the coalition must encompass the entire Muslim world and cannot exclude the most important Shiite nation, Iran. Obama did not...

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