President Obama on Wednesday gave conflicting remarks on his approach to dealing with ISIS, but various administration officials have spoken out in harsher language.
ABC News John Karl stated, “There seemed to be a mixed message there, because when he was asked to clarify if he was now saying the U.S. wants to destroy ISIS, he backtracks significantly, saying we can continue to shrink ISIS’s sphere of influence to the point where it is a manageable problem. So in the course of one set of remarks, he went from talking about destroying this terrorist group to making it into a “mangeable problem.”
Now you have mixed signals coming from the president’s own administration regarding ISIS.
Vice President Joseph Biden speaking in New Hampshire on Wednesday stated, “The American people are so much stronger, so much more resolved than any enemy can fully understand,” Biden said in the wake of the killing of a second American journalist by the extremist group. “As a nation we are united and when people harm Americans we don’t retreat, we don’t forget.”
Biden continued, “We take care of those who are grieving and when that’s finished, they should know we will follow them to the gates of Hell until they are brought to justice because Hell is where they will reside.”
U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel commented Wednesday regarding ISIS, is “something we’ve never seen before.”
Last month Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff stated ISIS cannot be defeated, these Islamic militant unless the United States and coalition partners attack their sanctuaries in Syria.
The New York Times reported General Dempsey quoted as saying, “This is an organization that has an apocalyptic end-of-days strategic vision that will eventually have to be defeated,” said the chairman, Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, in his most expansive public remarks on the crisis since American airstrikes began in Iraq. “Can they be defeated without addressing that part of the organization that resides in Syria? The answer is no.”
The president is now receiving push back from members of his own party with Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) calling on the president to articulate a coherent strategy. “I urge the administration to come to Congress with a clear strategy and political and military options for eliminating the ISIL threat.”
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) echoed the same theme in a tweet, “Do not believe ISIL is ‘manageable,’ agree these terrorists must be chased to the ‘gates of hell.”
On Thursday, President Obama in Wales for the NATO Summit and Obama is going to have to sell member nations on the need to confront ISIL, unfortunately this task has been made harder by lack of a coherent strategy.
The president cannot expect others to join a coalition if he himself is unwilling to lead. In a nut shell other nations do not trust this president!
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