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What Does ISIS Want Now?

A bombing at Kabul airport portends grave consequences as the Islamic State’s affiliate takes on the Taliban.
Source: WAKIL KOHSAR / AFP / Getty

Fifty years ago, John Kerry asked the Senate Foreign Relations Committee a question that is probably occurring to many Americans right now: “How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?” Yesterday, at least 13 U.S. service members died in an attack on a crowd of Afghans seeking evacuation from Kabul’s airport. They died saving their allies from persecution or murder by the Taliban. This was no mistake, although their deaths were the result of a war in which the United States . It was among the noblest moments of

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