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Can ISIS Be Destroyed?

The real challenge is not necessarily stopping the Islamic State, but rather ensuring that it does not reemerge.

by Frederic Wehrey
published by
CNN
 on September 16, 2014

Source: CNN

The risk with President Obama’s new strategy to destroy the Islamic State is that he could start an open-ended conflict, said Carnegie’s Frederic Wehrey on CNN. There was no clear sense from Obama’s speech that he was capable of reaching an end state where there would be a political solution, Wehrey argued. “The real challenge is ensuring that this group does not reemerge. We know these types of groups are incredibly resilient.”

This interview was originally aired on CNN.

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