The reversal of this soft-power, politics-not-troops mentality is an essential step forward......Nevertheless, there is a dismaying hesitancy in the military's and the White House's deliberations on this conflict. Although the president wants a new approach, the Pentagon, the State Department and even the National Security Council appear wedded to the past. The contradiction between what the president says and what his government does has never been greater. We need to move rapidly: The enemy is digging in and the drift to full-scale civil war is gaining speed....
Mr. Gerecht is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
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