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The long-standing American policy of fighting leftist or nonaligned regimes in the Middle East through radical Islamist insurgencies has had disastrous consequences, one of the more recent being the rise of the Islamic State. P Krishna Mohan Reddy and C Sheela Reddy observe that the West now seems confused and unwilling to play a decisive role in the expanding war, which can only be settled through the mediation of the major global powers.
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