Why The Islamic State is Doomed to Fail

The Islamic State is just the latest in a long line of state-building revolutionaries, following in the footsteps of the Jacobins, the Bolsheviks, the Khmer Rouge, and others. But its revolution is highly unlikely to spread, so the United States should follow a strategy of patient containment.

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