[Trudy Rubin] Jeb Bush, Iraq and the rise of the Islamic State
Mar 2, 2015
As the Islamic State’s barbarities make headlines, Republican presidential candidates are scrambling to outdo each other’s hawkish pronouncements on foreign policy.That makes political sense. With the economy improving, polls show that voters now consider terrorism to be as important a campaign issue for 2016 as economic issues. And Obama’s incoherent efforts to degrade the Islamic State make him an easy target.But when Jeb Bush, in a major foreign policy speech last week, tried to pin the blame