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from STRATFOR
– this post authored by Reva Goujon
“Tell me how this ends” is a familiar presidential refrain. U.S. President Barack Obama used it often throughout his administration to justify his policy of restraint in the Middle East, troubled by the second- and third-order effects of deepening any intervention to “degrade and ultimately destroy” the Islamic State.