| Under Obama's new strategy, the U.S. would strengthen the Syrian opposition, currently fighting both President Bashar Assad's forces and the Islamic State, while also working with an international coalition against the militants. Obama stressed the urgency of fighting the Islamic State, or ISIS, by noting 16 times that the extremist group presents a "threat" to U.S. or regional allies. Scanning the New York Times front page in the two days since, a counter-narrative can be found: The U.S. doesn't need to act immediately to confront the Islamic State, and both America's Middle East allies and the Syrian opposition appear unwilling or unprepared to fight the militants on the ground.That skepticism is welcome amid what has been a general media frenzy |
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