: re: The Elusive Truth About War on ISIS

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From: barry levine 
Date: Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 9:32 AM
Subject: re: The Elusive Truth About War on ISIS
To: "letters@nytimes.com"

To the Editor:

   Half a billion dollars to train "four or five" Syrians to combat ISIS is a bit of math that even most Republican candidates for president might get right. No one can afford to wage war or proxy war at that rate. If we mean to stop ISIS, it will mean either arming Kurdistan or putting American lives on the line. The latter is unpopular; the former is decades over-due.

Barry Haskell Levine

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/17/opinion/the-elusive-truth-about-war-on-isis.html