Defeating ISIS might be just the beginning
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 8 November 2016
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
With the votes still coming in, we’ll look ahead at one of the major challenges facing the next President of the United States: the fight against ISIS. It’s a legacy of George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq, one that Barack Obama has struggled unsuccessfully to leave behind. He reportedly hopes the City of Mosul will be "liberated" before he leaves office, with Raqqa -- the capitol of the "Caliphate" next in line.
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| 0:30.0 | From KCRW in Santa Monica and PRI, Public Radio International, this is To the Point. |
| 0:38.6 | Defeating ISIS might be just the beginning. |
| 0:45.0 | Hello again, I'm Amin al-Ni, and this is To the Point. |
| 0:47.8 | With the votes still coming in, we'll look ahead at one of the major challenges facing the next president of the United States, the fight against the Islamic State. |
| 0:55.7 | It's a legacy of George W. Bush's invasion of Iraq, one that Barack Obama has struggled unsuccessfully to lead behind. |
| 1:02.4 | He reportedly hopes the city of Mosul will be liberated before he leaves office with Raqa, the capital of the caliphate, next in line. |
| 1:09.5 | But what's after that? |
| 1:11.7 | There's the prospect of wars within wars between Sunnis, Shias, Kurds, and Iraqi Turks. Will anybody be able to |
| 1:17.6 | govern? Will the U.S. still have a role to play? On our talking point later, democracy in |
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