Norman Ricklefs and Derek Harvey write that Islamic State is winning in Iraq—and here’s what the U.S. needs to do to defeat the Islamist extremists.

Source: www.wsj.com

"In the closing years of the Vietnam War it was often noted sardonically that the “victories” against the Viet Cong were moving steadily closer to Saigon. The same could be said of Baghdad and the victories claimed against Islamic State, or ISIS, in Iraq in the past year."

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