France’s requested reforms, due to be presented at Friday’s emergency meeting of EU ministers, fall well short of solving Schengen’s problems. And the EU is unlikely to even accept all of them.
France’s decision to invoke the EU treaty rather than the NATO one isn’t really about military commitments. Rather, it’s a very canny bit of political maneuvering from Paris.
To cut the flow of recruits and funds to ISIS, we must make ISIS look unattractive and weak—drab. This is what we have to teach our enemies and those tempted to join them: disenchantment.
The Kurdish assault on the key Iraqi border city of Sinjar appears to have succeeded. Meanwhile, Iraqi forces announced the start of an offensive against Ramadi.
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