Stephen Collinson, Kevin Liptak and Deirdre Walsh, CNN: Will any of Obama's ISIS proposals succeed?
Washington (CNN)President Barack Obama's televised address on ISIS on Sunday night was meant to calm the public's escalating fears of terrorism, to chide 2016 candidates about explosive rhetoric over waging war and the place of Muslims in society and to defend his own efforts to combat the extremist group.
Whether it succeeded on any of those counts may depend where observers sit on the polarized U.S. political spectrum. But while it was largely a stay-the-course speech rather than one that heralds swift or significant changes to the anti-terrorism approach Obama has pursued throughout his presidency, the President did make several proposals and highlight some evolution in how the United States will go after ISIS in Syria and Iraq.
Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- December 8, 2015
How to Defeat ISIS Now—Not ‘Ultimately’ -- John McCain and Lindsey Graham, WSJ
ISIS Is Winning the Recruitment War as Foreign Fighters Flow into Syria -- Martin Matishak, Fiscal Times
NYT: Muslims are 25 times more likely to commit terrorist attacks -- Ed Straker, American Thinker
The Assad ultimatum: Unless the issue of Assad's future is tackled early on, the Vienna talks will lead nowhere. -- James Denselow, Al Jazeera
The US May Have Just Attacked the Assad Regime for the First Time -- Avi Asher-Schapiro, VICE News
Stakes in Syria much higher for Putin than Obama -- Walter Pincus, Washington Post
Washington, Baghdad on different pages in fight against IS -- Susannah George, AP
Boko Haram is Wounded and Dangerous -- Max Siollun, Foreign Policy
China Base in Djibouti Reflects Economic, Africa Strategy -- Jill Craig and Shannon Van Sant, VOA
A Costly Corridor: How China and Pakistan Could Remake Asia -- Fahad Shah, Foreign Affairs
US Makes Latest Strategic Chess Move In Southeast Asia – Analysis -- Bruno De Paiva, Eurasia Review
As Russia’s economy shrinks, Vladimir Putin softens his tone -- The Economist
Le Pen Wins on Economy, Not Xenophobia -- Leonid Bershidsky, Bloomberg
Making Venezuela's Vote Count -- Bloomberg editorial
A look at the man who might be Venezuela's next president -- Peter Wilson, Special for USA TODAY
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