Greg Myre, NPR: The U.S. Is Beating Back ISIS, So What Comes Next?
President Trump said he would let his generals manage the fight against the Islamic State. And so far, he's done that.
The U.S. and its coalition partners carried out more than 5,000 airstrikes in Syria and Iraq combined in August. That's the highest monthly figure since the air campaign began three years ago.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, with the Council on Foreign Relations, visited the front line of the Syrian war last month in Raqqa, where the U.S. and its allies are pounding the Islamic State in its last major stronghold.
"What we saw in Raqqa was absolute devastation. And we met families who fled ISIS and got caught in the coalition air strikes," said Lemmon.
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WNU Editor: I do not sense any reconciliation in the air to find a road-path for peace. And while there is war fatigue .... the underlying sectarian tensions that produced this conflict are still there. This could all erupt again ten years from now.
