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Our Shiite allies in the war against the terrorist Islamic State [IS] also have a taste for terror, which is one reason why we probably won’t destroy the IS. [Credit: Getty Images]
This past week, he called on the world to unite behind a “common effort to extract this cancer,” as he characterized the Islamic State [IS]. Our ever-bellicose chief diplomat shunned metaphors and spoke more directly. The IS, Kerry said, “and the wickedness it represents must be destroyed.”
Thus did our latest incursion into Iraq, which began as a mission to rescue Yazidis trapped on a mountain, become something more. But words are cheap. War is costly. The President lacks the resolve to make good on his threat to extract the cancer that is the Islamic State.