Christian Cali is a U.S. Foreign Service Officer currently assigned to Washington, DC. Before joining the Foreign Service, Cali was a counter-terrorism desk officer and military officer with two tours in Iraq and deployments to Afghanistan and Haiti. Christian holds a bachelor’s from the University of Michigan and a master’s from the Fletcher School. These views are written in a private capacity and are not necessarily reflective of U.S. policy.
IS is not the adversary of 2006-2008 Iraq, this is a more fanatical, more entrenched, better equipped force with a radical commitment to the territory it has captured.
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