Yet in advocating a ground war, he’s proposing a “solution” that largely replicates the mistakes of 2003. “Airstrikes are not going to defeat [Islamic State]. Only Russia, which invited itself into the conflict on the side of Assad, has a concrete plan: Islamic State is defeated and Assad stays. Those failures are linked directly to the rise of Islamic State. But be in no doubt, if you want to defeat these people you are going to have to wage a proper ground war against them.

Source: National Post May 25, 2016 08:45 UTC