In his State of the Union address, President Barack Obama sounded a familiar and somewhat defensive theme about the Islamic State. Let’s not overreact, he said, against “masses of fighters on the back of pickup trucks and twisted souls plotting in apartments or garages … [who] do not threaten our national existence.” To intensify the fight unnecessarily, he suggested, is to court disaster. “We can’t try to take over and rebuild every country that falls into chaos,” the president reminded Americans, as he has done many times before. That would be a recipe for a quagmire, the path to another …read more
Source: European Voice
