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And that means it’s time again f or a reality check. Having failed n n its bid to destroy the Taliban nd al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, tl le United States is still trying to d ismantle both organizations. >ver the course of 13 years of 'ar, that mission has spread to yria, Iraq, Yemen, Somalia, ibya, Mali, and West Africa, as m lilitant groups on two continents ave ad o p ted the al-Q aed a rand. Contrary to normal logic, the 4rite House wants everyone to :e this failure as a badge of ipertise. As President Barack bama vowed in an interview l Meet the Press, fighting the lamic State forces “is some- th ing we know how to do,” mainly be cause w e’ve been battling sir nilar groups “for five, six, seven ars.” Years of air strikes, drone- operated killings, and covert operations have brought neither peace nor safety to the region and its people. Estimates of the death toll from U.S. attacks in Paki stan, Yemen, and Somalia alone range from 3,100 to 5,400, including 570-1,200 civilians. Precise figures are impossible to obtain since the strikes remain classified, and investigating drone attacks is difficult and danger ous work. Nor has the drone campaign halted the proliferation of groups seeking to link their — usually local — agendas to the idea of a global struggle represented by al-Qaeda. Indiscriminate killing — and the constant fear of death from above — has only de stroyed communities and pro vided easy recruitment material for extremist groups. Obama promises that his plan to combat and destroy the Is lamic State forces will also ad dress the underlying political problems in Iraq and Syria. Such claim s are tenuous, at best. has found some support in the areas it has taken over. Bomb ing Islamic State targets — es pecially where they are em bed ded in communities and liable to cause civilian casualties — car ries no promise o f changing this dynamic for the better. It’s more likely to change it for the worse. The Islamic State is indeed a danger to the people of the re gion and to efforts to resolve the political conflicts in Iraq and Syria. Yet the past decade has shown, again and again, that A m erican firepow er d o esn ’t solve these problems. Even if W ashington manages to help destroy this al-Qaeda spinoff, the grievances that give rise to groups like it can’t be bombed out of existence. The campaign formerly called “the W ar on Terror” has only proven to perpetuate both war and te rro r. N o am o u n t o f rebranding or wishful thinking will change that reality this time around. W hat’s far more certain is thal all military campaigns have un intended consequences, some of which don’t appear for many years afterward. The Islam ic State itself is largely a product of the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq. Dismantling the Iraqi state and rebuilding it along sectarian lines produced an authoritarian gov ernment dominated by Shiite Is lamists who ignored minority grievances and often suppressed dissent with bullets. The result? An entrenched civil war with no end in sight. Although U.S. media cover age of the violence in Iraq sub sided following the withdrawal o f combat troops, sectarian at tacks against civilians have con tinued. Car bombs, street as saults, and kidnappings have transformed Baghdad into a city segregated by sect. Large parts of the country, including the Sunni majority areas in the west and Amanda Ufheil-Somers is north, feel abandoned by the the assistant editor o f Middle central government. East Report, published by the These political tensions are Middle East Research and In the reason why the Islamic State formation Project.
