Fighting Evil = Fighting ISIS

We had Hitler in WWII.
Now we have ISIS in 2014.
Either one, you just cannot ignore.
Evil prospers when Good Men do nothing to stop it. 


Topic Summary (from www.nytimes.com): A version of this editorial appears in print on September 12, 2014, on page A30 of the New York edition with the headline: Legal Authority for fighting ISIS.

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• Fighting ISIS is discussed   in print on September 12, 2014, on page A30 of the New York edition with the headline: Legal Authority for fighting ISIS . (from www.nytimes.com)
• Female members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) take position on the front line in Makhmur, some 50 km south of Erbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq where clashes with Islamic State(IS) militants are ongoing, Aug (from www.cbsnews.com)

  

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• Of those, 150 will be embedded with the Iraqi military, serving as advisers but not engaging in combat themselves, defense officials told NBC News after the speech. (from www.nbcnews.com)
• ISIS has successfully recruited foreign fighters from at least 81 countries, according to a study from the Souffan Group released in June (fromwww.ibtimes.com)
• As the Times explains, the prospects for marshaling a unified rebel frontagainst ISIS are dismal at best (from www.vox.com)
• Obama announced that an additional 475 American military personnel would be deployed to help Iraqi and Kurdish forces with training and intelligence (fromwww.nbcnews.com)
• After a first day of US air raids on fighters who had moved within striking distance of Kurdistan, a top official in the autonomous region said the time had come for a fightback. (from www.cbsnews.com
President Obama , the man largely responsible for the mess going on in the country , has authorized airstrikes in support of efforts being made by Kurdish ground forces to push ISIS terrorists back and reclaim the many cities and towns that have been taken over. (from conservativetribune.com)
• While women of the PKK and its affiliate in Syria—the YPG, another gender-mixed force that has been fighting the Islamic State in the Kurdish region of Syria for three years—see far more action than women in other Kurdish armed groups, the eagerness to confront ISIS is all the same. (from mashable.com)
• YPJ soldiers carry the casket of Evrim, a female soldier who died while fightingISIS militants , during her funeral in Derek City, Syria. (fromwww.nbcnews.com)