Security risks continue to fester in the mostly desert terrain between Iraq and Syria, where the Islamic State conducts brazen attacks even as its alleged leaders are reported killed.
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The Islamic State is just the latest in a long line of state-building revolutionaries, following in the footsteps of the Jacobins, the Bolsheviks, the Khmer Rouge, and others. But its revolution is highly unlikely to spread, so the United States should follow a strategy of patient containment.
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