Time to Take Sides in North Africa's Jihadist Fight

Nearly two months after President Obama first vowed to eradicate the Islamic State terrorist group in its Levantine stronghold, this internationally-diagnosed cancer is spreading in North Africa. From the sunburnt shores of the Sinai to the rustic alleyways of Casablanca, there are increasing signs that ISIS is entrenching itself within striking distance of Europe's soft underbelly. As the West struggles to roll back three years of an errant hands-off policy in Syria and Iraq, no leader has the luxury to ignore this threat without consequence. On September 15, a group of Algerian jihadists broke away from the al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb network, long known as the Godfather network of...