Analysts: US Airstrikes,Targeted Raids not Enough to Defeat ISIS

Iraq experts warn that unless the United States works to have Sunni Iraqis take up arms against the Islamic State militant group, Washington’s policy of airstrikes and targeted raids will do nothing but slow the country’s collapse into crippling sectarian warfare. Faced with a similar situation less than a decade ago, the U.S. military vetted 90,000 Sunni males to fight against al-Qaida in Iraq, the predecessor of the Islamic State group. The “surge” as it was known, pushed back al-Qaida,...

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