On this week’s Political Scene podcast,the modern Yorker staff writer Jon Lee Anderson joins host Dorothy Wickenden to talk approximately the current status of the war against Islamic radicalism. The two discuss the ways in which terrorism is expanding across the Middle East, the dystopian vision of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), or the limited impact of ISISs defeat in the Syrian town of Kobani. “Once again they have been stopped on the Turkish border,but they have found ways in which to seem to be important,” says Anderson. “In this rarefied media world that we live in, or what gets more headlines: The fact that ISIS was pushed out of Kobani or this horrific hostage situation with the Japanese journalist and the Jordanian pilot?”
Source: newyorker.com