(Politico) Writing for Politico, Rania Abouzeid explores how international inaction in Syria laid the groundwork for the current crisis in Iraq: “Now, as a result of ISIL’s victories, U.S. President Obama, a man who campaigned on extricating the United States from ‘dumb’ wars in the Middle East, finds himself potentially embroiled in another one,” writes Abouzeid, pondering the future of America’s military presence in the region. “This was not inevitable. The Syrian revolution — and the hesitant, confused international reaction to it — paved the way for the resurrection of a militant Islam that would turn vast regions of Iraq and Syria into borderless jihadi strongholds and inch closer to redrawing the map of the Middle East — in practical terms if not on paper. This is the story, pieced together over several trips into Syria and rare interviews with highly placed jihadi commanders on the front lines, of how it happened...
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