President Obama and Prime Minister David Cameron are calling for forming a new coalition of countries to fight ISIS.
Barack Obama and David Cameron seek coalition against Isis
Western leaders plan to use Nato summit to build military coalition amid outrage over Isis killing of hostages
By Patrick Wintour
Barack Obama and David Cameron have vowed to use the Nato summit starting in Wales on Thursday to engineer a resilient military and political coalition, including key countries in the Middle East, capable of squeezing out and destroying Islamic State (Isis) in northern Iraq.
British officials also said the British prime minister was examining every option to protect the British hostage threatened by the jihadist group on Tuesday, in light of its murder of the American journalists Steven Sotloff and James Foley in the past month.
"We will not be intimidated," Obama said in Estonia on the way to the summit. "Their horrific acts only unite us and stiffen our resolve to take the fight against these terrorists. And those who make the mistake of harming Americans will learn that we will not forget and that our reach is long and that justice will be served."
I'm reminded of this:
"There are over 60 nations involved in Iraq. Make sure everybody -- let's all start from the same basis, if you don't mind. So there is international support. When you say there's over 60 nations involved in Iraq, that means that there's international support in Iraq."
~ George W. Bush in a December 15, 2003 Press Conference
Some expert observers are saying that ISIS wants to be attacked by the US.
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Perhaps surprisingly, this extremism does not put everyone off.
“These beheadings on TV are a way of trying to get Western military intervention,” said Dr Jones. “You’d think that wouldn’t be what [ISIS] want, but when young Muslims see this treatment of their ‘brothers’ it creates a camaraderie, and they want to fight.
Will a new Coalition of the Willing counter to the rise of ISIS? Or is it a fundamentally flawed strategy, and Iraq's neighbors in the region are better situated to counter ISIS as Kos suggested in his diary?
Islamic State is a threat, so let the neighbors deal with it