most posters must know that i am not a fan of President Obama, but in this case i believe he is doing the right thing, albeit better late than never...we have a muslim coalition of five arab nations which will help the world to see that even other muslims are against the radical idealogy of ISIS. this will be a longterm war. consider that Spain struggled for 800 years to defeat the caliphate that took over granada and half their country! ironically, that victory gave isabel and ferdinand the extra funds to back Christopher Columbus in his voyages which ultimately led to US
the absence of Turkey in the coalition is troublesome, however.