Iraq crisis demands Obama rethink

By Nick O'Malley and David Wroe
Updated August 30 2014 - 1:23am, first published 12:15am

The White House is seeking to thread a fine political needle in a fraught, mistrustful region so it can unleash the military might of an international coalition against Islamic State fighters in Iraq, probably including Australia.

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