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Petraeus’ Plan to Defeat Islamic State Won’t Work

Posted September 2nd, 2015 at 4:29 pm (UTC-4)
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The key problem with Petraeus’s idea is that the U.S. may no longer have any chance of being “credible” in Syria. Four years after the crisis began, U.S. support for groups fighting the Assad regime has slowed. Those moderate groups that haven’t been crushed or coopted by Islamic groups feel abandoned by Washington.