(Foreign Policy) Less than 24 hours after President Barack Obama announced that "America will lead a broad coalition" into his new war with the Islamic State, it's already becoming clear that the coalition may not be as broad as he had hoped.
In returning American forces to combat operations in the Middle East, Obama emphasized that he will sign up key allies to aid the expanding military effort against IS, provide humanitarian support, and help stem the flow of foreign fighters into Iraq and Syria amid fears that militants with Western passports will fight there and then return home to carry out new attacks. Obama has often spoken of the importance of ensuring that the United States doesn't fight distant wars on its own, absorbing the vast bulk of the human and financial costs, as part of his broader belief that the Bush administration acted too unilaterally in Iraq and Afghanistan.
