Is the president giving ISIS plenty of notice of exactly what were going to do and where? This gives them time to move their money and their military assets. I think President Eisenhower would have launched first and gone on the air to explain it second. From Politico today: President Barack Obama will outline to the nation on Wednesday his administrations plans for fighting the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and does not expect to ask Congress for approval to act, he said in an interview airing Sunday. Im preparing the country to make sure that we deal with a threat from ISIL, Obama said in an interview conducted at the White House Saturday to mark Chuck Todds first show as moderator of NBCs Meet the Press. Theres going to be an economic element to this. Theres going to be a political element to it. Theres going to be a military element to it, he said, without going into more detail. And what I want people to understand, though, is that over the course of months, we are going to be able to not just blunt the momentum of ISIL. We are going to systematically degrade their capabilities. Were going to shrink the territory that they control. And ultimately were going to defeat em. After months of assessing the threat posed by ISIL and several weeks of securing U.S. personnel in Iraq, the next phase is now to start going on some offense, Obama said, and hell use Wednesdays speech to explain to Americans how he intends to move forward.
Posted on: Sun, 07 Sep 2014 17:11:53 +0000
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