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This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and editors about

politics. It's Friday, September 5th. I'm Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor of the New Yorker.

We will not be intimidated. After the videotape beheadings of two American journalists,

President Obama said that the U.S. will degrade and destroy ISIS, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.

They're horrific acts only unite us as a country and stiffen our resolve to take the fight against these terrorists.

And those who make the mistake of harming Americans will learn that we will not forget

and that our reach is long and that justice will be served.

That was Obama speaking on Wednesday in Estonia. He then traveled to a NATO meeting in Wales

where he met about ISIS and about the Russian incursion into Ukraine. Steve Kahl and Ryan Liz are

here today to talk about Obama's ongoing foreign policy crises. So, Steve, Obama is emerging

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