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What should we be doing to defeat the Islamic State?

Clip: 11/23/2015 | 8m 2s

What should we be doing to defeat the Islamic State?

Militarily and diplomatically, what can the U.S. and others do to stop the Islamic State? Gwen Ifill gets views from James Jeffrey of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago.

11/23/2015 | Rating NR

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