” Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, writing in Defense One, notes that regardless of whether it brings the Taliban to the negotiating table, the drone strike resulting in Mansour’s death will lead to a “decidedly less cordial phase of U.S. [read post]

Of course, much of the problem stems from Europe’s overwhelming failure to address the chaos in Syria, which is coupled with what Gayle Tzemach Lemmon calls in Defense One the Obama administration’s failed “containment” approach to the Syrian Civil War. [read post]