October 10, 2014

As ISIS Threatens A Key Town In Syria, Is The U.S. Playing A Dangerous Game?

Source: Huffington Post

Journalist: Sam Stein

As the U.S.-led coalition continues to engage the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, much of the world's attention has been focused on Kobani, a city on the northern border of Syria, a stone's throw from Turkey, that the militant group is seemingly determined to capture. The implications for those inside Kobani are dire: its citizens are facing the prospect of a massacre that's being compared to the 1995 Srebrenica genocide in Bosnia.

The Huffington Post's Sam Stein and David Wood discussed the fate of Kobani in the most recent taping of The Huffington Post's roundtable interview series, "Drinking & Talking." They were joined by State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki, Time magazine reporter Mark Thompson and the Center for a New American Security's Nora Bensahel. At issue: Can the situation in Kobani spur the United States' regional partners to act, or is the U.S. playing a dangerous game of chicken?

Watch the full panel at Huffington Post.

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  • Nora Bensahel