Containment Is Not Enough: ISIS Must Be Defeated
Topics: World
Public Release Date: August 09, 2015
Presented in partnership with the Aspen Strategy Group.
In June 2014, the Sunni militant group ISIS declared that it had established a new caliphate spanning territory in Syria and Iraq. Since then, the region under its control has expanded, despite airstrikes and the deployment of U.S. military advisors, and Jihadist groups across the Muslim world have pledged their allegiance. What should the Obama administration’s next steps be? Should the U.S. goal be containment, or can ISIS be defeated?
ARGUING YES:
Michèle Flournoy: Co-Founder & Managing Partner of WestExec, Former U.S. Undersecretary of Defense for Policy
Philip Zelikow: Professor of History at UVA, Former Counselor to the Department of State
ARGUING NO:
Anne-Marie Slaughter: Former Director of Policy Planning at the Department of State
Dov Zakheim: Senior Advisor at the CSIS, Former Deputy Under Secretary of Defense
MODERATOR-IN-CHIEF:
John Donvan: Emmy award-winning journalist