If one little town can tell a big story about American strategy and the Islamic State it may be Kobani. Desert and fields around a spray of white houses, schools, buildings, in northern Syria, hard against the Turkish border. For ten days, ISIS has been battling toward the town and its desperate Syrian-Kurdish defenders. Refugees, fleeing. Turkish Kurds watching from hillsides across the border, cut off. American planes hitting ISIS tanks and guns. But ISIS keeps coming. A slaughter is feared. The tangle of interests is fierce. This hour, On Point: the US, ISIS, and the battle for Kobani.
– Tom Ashbrook
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