"ISIS is contained†is the new “American tanks are not in Baghdad†of 2015.
In the throes of a tight re-election campaign in October of 2012, President Barack Obama declared that al Qaeda was “on the run.†In one sense, he was right: al Qaeda was running into the arms of ISIS, which was running wild in the Middle East. But his intended implication–that his policies had routed the terrorists, rendered them incapable of hurting Americans, and as a result made America safer from the threat of terrorist attack–was demonstrably false.
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