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  • Obama: Foreign aid key part of ISIS strategy

    03/16/2015 4:34:24 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 14 replies
    The Hill ^ | March 16, 2015, 07:03 pm | Ben Kamisar
    America needs to increase foreign aid to Middle Eastern countries to help stem the growth of groups like the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), President Obama said during an interview with Vice News that aired Monday.  "I'm confident that will happen but what I’m worried about and what we’ll have to stay worried about is even if ISIL is defeated, the underlying problem of disaffected Sunnis around the world," Obama said.  ADVERTISEMENT “We can’t keep on thinking of counterterrorism and security as entirely separate from diplomacy, development, education, all these things that are considered soft, but in fact...