Does the San Bernardino attack justify a reappraisal of Western anti-terror efforts?

The linking of the San Bernardino massacre to ISIS has once again heightened the pressure on the Obama administration to alter its ISIS strategy.

The mass shooting in San Bernardino has triggered an avalanche of tough-talking rhetoric from the 2016 GOP presidential field, but it has not cleared up the muddle of foreign-policy positions that, so far, have defined the race.

On June 26, 1950, North Korea invaded South Korea, beginning an ugly war that resulted in more than a million casualties, and demonstrated to even the most optimistic that a Cold War was seriously underway. That was just two weeks after I got my master’s degree from Stanford, so it is no exaggeration to say that I am a child of the Cold War.