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- Conflict in Iraq and Syria has driven millions from their homes, and Baltimore's international aid community is doing what it can to help.
- There's a certain irony in the fact that the American president who won the office vowing to end the two wars he inherited finds himself after six years as much a wartime president as the man he succeeded.
- The president's decision to slow the pace of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan was a bow to history's lesson that wars are easier to start than to end
- When it comes to foreign policy, Jeb Bush leans toward his father's model not his brother's, says David Horsey.
- Matthew Van Dyke, the native Baltimorean, self-made freedom fighter and film documentarian, emerged from the shadows last week to report his latest adventure with a Tweet: "I am in #Iraq helping to raise a Christian army to fight #ISIS
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- President Obama's latest war strategy makes one wonder: Is another Woodrow Wilson in the Oval Office debating with himself about how to meet the existential threat that faces him?
- Congress must exercise its authority to declare war against ISIS while setting reasonable limits on the use of military force
- It is perverse that Mr. Obama feels compelled to lecture the West about not getting too judgmental on our "high horse" about radical Islam's medieval barbarism in 2015 because of Christianity's medieval barbarism in 1215.I see no problem judging the behavior of the Islamic State and its apologists from the vantage point of the West's high horse, because we've earned the right to sit in that saddle.
- Destroying — versus degrading and defeating — a rogue, criminal, rapidly expanding Middle Eastern movement that calls itself a religious "state" will require a sustained combination of political, economic, and military power. Whether or not the international community and our Middle Eastern partners in particular have the resolve to see this through over the long term — years, in all likelihood — is an open question. Our collective resolve to do so has likely
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- Gloria Steinem, Obama adviser David Plouffe among those to speak on Johns Hopkins University's Baltimore campus
- WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama revived his call Thursday for an end to deep cuts in federal spending, an appeal that fell squarely in the divide between Republicans in Congress who want to rein in costs and those who want to boost the Pentagon's budget.
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- A hacker displaying sympathy for terrorist group ISIS commandeered the main Twitter feed of an Eastern Shore TV station.
- Ever since George W. Bush in 2002 began driving up public frenzy for his invasion of Iraq on trumped-up justifications a year later, Congress' constitutional role to declare war has continued to be cold-shouldered.
- President Obama's firm determination that no more American combat forces will be introduced in the Middle East battlefield may well thwart his intention to "degrade and ultimately destroy" the new threat of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
- With Chuck Hagels departure, Mr. Obama almost finds himself back at square one in his own war against war.
- Before President Obama does anything else in the lame-duck Congress or the new one in January, he needs forthrightly to seek an update or new authorization for the new war he's fighting against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
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- The international community has not developed a coordinated communication strategy as force-multiplier against ISIL. Mindful of this dynamic, there are now demands for the United Nations to enhance its ability to deal with the threat more effectively and provide leadership and strategic direction on countering violent extremism.
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- The best hope is that the newly empowered Republicans, hoping to counter the brand of negativism that haunted them throughout the Obama administration will swiftly put forward their own legislative agenda and bring much of it up for a vote in both houses.
- Threat of terror attacks from Islamic State is too great for U.S. military to ignore
- President Barack Obama's latest foray into the Middle East is unfortunately reactive and uninformed, and shows how very little he seems to take into account our bloody history in the region.
- There have been times the last few years when it has felt like "Frontline" was the last, hard-hitting journalistic outfit left on American television.
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- President Obama and his top advisers refer to Islamic State as 'ISIL' yet disrespectful media insists on calling it 'ISIS'
- After all the support the U.S. has given Israel, why isn't it joining the fight against ISIS?
- The stock market rises and falls, ISIS marches on and the president plays golf, writes Cal Thomas.
- Loss of respect overseas and stalemate over domestic policy add up to a failed presidency
- Joe Biden has a penchant for revealing the inconvenient truth.
- While the president has faced great challenges, he has dealt with them only half way, writes Jules Witcover.
- Is America responsible for the chaos engulfing the Middle East?
- The president has for a long time hoped to find a pony in the pile of manure left for him by obstructionist Republicans in Congress.
- With broad public doubts about the wisdom and tactics of Mr. Obama's new and more muscular initiatives against the Islamic State, a congressional debate seems inevitable, and should be held, even in a demonstrably dysfunctional Congress.
- The president's strategy to defeat ISIS sounds reasonable enough, but recent history suggests achieving that goal may be far more difficult than it appears
