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Iraq continues to crumble. What are the options?

I'm Sarah Terry sitting in for Warren Olney, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International,

a daily look at the issues Americans

care about most. In Iraq,

fighters led by the Islamic State

of Iraq and Syria continue

to move closer to Baghdad, where the government

says it's deploying more troops.

In Washington, President

Obama says the U.S. won't send

troops, but that he's still weighing selective

military action. Later on our program, U.S. oil production and energy independence are at a 28-year

high. But without pipelines to move so much oil, barrels of crude are now traveling the U.S.

on trains, an estimated million barrels a day. We look at the safety

issues involved with what critics call bomb trains. First, the news.

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I'm Sarah Terry, sitting in for Warren Olney.

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