Searching for a Remedy for Ramadi

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jun 11, 2015

Fred Kaplan, Slate's war stories columnist and the author of The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War (Simon & Schuster, 2014), discusses the Obama administration’s latest attempt to tackle ISIS in Iraq: authorizing 450 additional American military trainers to help Iraqi forces retake the city of Ramadi from the terrorist group.

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