Obama Faces Tough Options In Syria

The president may continue helping Iraqi forces try to reverse the group's land grabs in northern Iraq by providing more arms and American military advisers and by using U.S. warplanes to support Iraqi ground operations. [...] what if the militants pull back, even partially, into Syria and regroup, as Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Thursday predicted they would, followed by a renewed offensive? "In a sense, you're just sort of back to where you were" before they swept into Iraq, said Robert Ford, a former U.S.

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