Confronting ISIS

The Brian Lehrer Show | Aug 21, 2014

As President Obama commits the U.S. to a "relentless" response to ISIS after the killing of photojournalist James Foley, George Packer, staff writer for The New Yorker, talks about what's ahead and to what extent we're back where we started.

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