Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- September 11, 2014

Obama's Strategy: Kill ISIS Before They Kill Us -- Aaron David Miller and Jason Brodsky

(CNN) -- Think that President Barack Obama has done a back flip on Iraq and Syria, gotten that old-time religion and is now a convert to the "let's kill them wherever we find them" approach of his predecessors? Think again, or at least lay down until the feeling passes.

Indeed, stripped to its essence, what the President has outlined isn't some grand strategy to transform the region or even to "ultimately destroy" ISIS; it's a much narrower transactional one to protect the homeland. And here's why:

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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- September 11, 2014

What Obama Didn’t Say -- Philip Gourevitch, New Yorker

Why ISIS Keeps Running Circles Around Us, Just Like Al Qaeda Did Before 9/11 -- Christopher Dickey, Daily Beast

Can we defeat the Islamic State? -- Fareed Zakaria, Washington Post

For Assad, U.S. plan will weaken one foe but bolster others -- Tom Perry and Alexander Dziadosz, Reuters

As Obama seeks allies against Islamic State, Lebanon is already in the fight -- Nicholas Blanford, CSM

Obama's New War on ISIS May Be Illegal -- Eli Lake, Daily Beast

Legal Scholars Doubt President’s Authority to Wage War Against ISIL -- Caroline Lee Smith, Washington Free Beacon

Obama's Realization: There's No Way Out of the Middle East -- Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic

Special Report: Scots warm to the power of Yes -- Alistair Smout, Reuters

Newsweek Europe Exclusive: Russian Soldiers Reveal the Truth Behind Putin's Secret War -- Anna Nemtsova, Newsweek

Catalans Want Independence Too -- Helene Zuber, Spiegel Online

US considered offering asylum to Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet -- Jonathan Franklin, The Guardian

Assessing the Terrorist Threat 13 Years after 9/11: Old Guard Al Qaeda, Team ISIS & the Upstarts -- Clint Watts, War On the Rocks

Rudy Giuliani on His 9/11 Bluff, the Museum Controversy and the Rise of ISIS -- Josh Robin, Daily Beast

The Resilient City: New York After 9/11 -- John Avlon, Daily Beast