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As the West expands and deepens its military mission against the Islamic State, how much do we really know about the foe we are fighting? Pakistani journalist, bestselling author and renowned expect on radical Islam, Ahmed Rashid, thinks the West has failed to understand the extent to which the Islamic State represents an entirely new breed of terrorist enterprise. Any chance we have of marginalizing ISIS as a force in the region will require unprecedented Arab - as opposed to Western - action. The prospect of failure for Ahmed Rashid includes nothing less than a catastrophic sectarian war within the Muslim world.

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