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EFTA01953205 | EFTA01953212 States and its allies haven't provided enough support to the proWestern government in Tripoli to allow it to build up security forces capable of pushing back the militias that still rule the streets. The situation is even worse in Iraq, where al Qaeda in Iraq has managed to revive itself after the withdrawal of all US forces. Violence rates have soared back to 2008 levels, while al Qaeda in Iraq has also exported its operations to neighboring Syria, where the United States seems to have no strategy for rolling back gains being made by both Shiite and Sunni extremists. The picture in Afghanistan, meanwhile, is mixed: The United States has made a massive troop commitment to bolster the government in Kabul, but it is not clear if America will maintain any forces after 2014 to build on the gains that have been made. The latest news reports indicate that the White House is once again threatening to pull all US troops if an impasse over the terms of their deployment is not resolved. If the "zero option" does come to pass, it risks undoing everything that US troops have fought for. So by all means send out the special operators to collar or kill the bad guys. That is risky but necessary. But also remember that this is only one "line of operation" in a larger strategy that we desperately need to counter the continuing growth of Islamist extremism. Max Boot is a seniorfellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. EFTA_R1_00421582 EFTA01953212
March 16, 2026 at 12:22 PM