By Joe Barnes, Bonner Means Baker Fellow, Baker Institute for Public Policy, and Andrew Bowen, Ph.D., Senior Fellow and director of Middle East Studies, Center for the National Interest
What strategy should the U.S. pursue in confronting ISIL and addressing the broader challenges of Iraq, Syria, Iran, Yemen, stability in the Persian Gulf, and the ever-present Israeli-Palestinian dispute? Leadership and engagement play a part, of course, but they must be subservient to a U.S. strategy whose objective is to protect and, if possible, advance our core interests in the region.
