Almost nine months after President Obama admitted that “we don’t have a strategy yet” to challenge the Islamic State — and just days after he said he still has “” — the non-strategy suddenly has a name: escalation. According to reports in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, the Obama administration is poised to send to Iraq immediately, and to build a new U.S. military base in restive Anbar province to house them — and potentially many more. These troops would not be limited to the officially narrow training mission of the 3,100 U.S. troops already on the ground in Iraq. They would still be considered trainers and advisers, but their mission, according to the Times, “to help...
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