By David Francis with Sabine Muscat
President Barack Obama used the I-word — Iraq — only twice in last night’s State of the Union. But he boasted of stopping the Islamic State’s advance there and in Syria. FP’s Kate Brannen: “[T]he president’s view is that by sticking to airstrikes and keeping U.S. troops solely in a training mission, rather than a combat one, the U.S. can avoid getting ensnared in a potentially long and bloody ground war.”
Obama still faces a slew of foreign policy challenges in the twilight of his presidency. The president still has yet to close the prison at …read more
Source: Foreign Policy
