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| Obama Forges Anti-ISIL Coalition, |
| Obama Forges Anti-ISIL Coalition, But Will it Hang Together?
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 23-September-2014
23:5:22 PM |
| The Arabs are in. Turkey is on the fence. Britain, still smarting from an earlier Iraq war, is cautiously edging toward expanded action. Even Greece wants to help - if someone would tell it how.
Two weeks after he announced plans to form a "broad coalition" to fight the militant group Islamic State, President Barack Obama's hopes for international support for actions in Iraq and Syria appear to be gelling.
But it remains to be seen whether this motley global crew, whose members have widely differing goals, can hang together for a mission that Obama has acknowledged could last for years, and which is bound to encounter difficulties - as well as both military and civilian casualties.
"The common threat gives the president an ability to bring together a broader coalition," said former US ambassador Edward Djerejian, who was involved in an earlier US-led coalition to oust Iraq's Saddam Hussein from Kuwait in 1991. Ironically, that coalition included Syria.
"We just don't know how robust the coalition will be in terms of staying together. That's a big question," said Djerejian, director of Rice University's Baker Institute.
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