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Was the Rise of ISIS Inevitable?
Submitted by Westernerd on Thu, 2017-06-08 03:00
The lesson to draw about how to avoid future monsters like ISIS is not that sometimes America should be more eager to use force, but that military action, especially in the Middle East, inevitably delivers negative unintended consequences, and so should remain an absolute last resort.
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