Seven Worst-Case Scenarios in the Battle with the Islamic State

(Before It's News)

By Peter Van Buren, TomDispatch

The U.S. is again at war in the Middle East, bombing freely across Iraq and Syria and searching desperately for some non-American boots to put on the ground. Here are seven worst-case scenarios in a part of the world where the worst case has regularly been the best that’s on offer.

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