Malise Ruthven published this lucid and insightful article — only slightly marred by one obligatory gratuitous jibe at George W. Bush — in the New York Review of Books back at the end of February:
http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2015/feb/28/lure-caliphate-isis/
I recommend it.
Posted from Langley, British Columbia
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