Romney, out of ’16 race, hits Obama on tactics against ISIS

President Obama came under fire over the weekend for his assessment that ISIS has been “contained”, which was aired in an interview just hours before the attacks in Paris.

President Barack Obama said Monday that sending troops into Syria to fight ISIS would be a “mistake”, but not allowing Syrian refugees into the United States would betray American values.

The USA military needs to lead a large-scale ground campaign made up of regional armies from Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Turkey to defeat ISIS forces occupying large portions of Iraq, McCain and Graham said on CNN.

Three days after the Paris attacks, France has stepped up its bombing campaign against ISIS targets in Iraq and Syria. The idea that ISIS was stockpiling weapons and training terrorists – perhaps a few of the terrorists that carried out the attacks last Friday night in Paris – at locations bombed after the attacks makes you wonder why in the world those positions were not hit sooner.

To protect Americans at home, “I’m looking for an away game when it comes to ISIL, not a home game”.

The video, which was posted on a site used by ISIS in the past, is reportedly the work of ISIS fighters in Iraq. As I outlined this fall at the United Nations, we have a comprehensive strategy using all elements of our power, military intelligence, economic development, and the strength of our communities. As we continue to debate how to do so, we can’t ignore recent experience: Expanding wars have a way of not going as planned. “There is no other way to defeat this enemy”. Rather than standing as a sign that the Islamic State is expanding its capabilities, the Paris attacks might signal that the group is in retreat, and is lashing out at the West in retaliation.

At the conclusion of a meeting in Turkey with leaders from the Group of 20 rich and developing nations, Obama resisted calls to mount more military pressure on ISIS. Now that the Islamic State is claiming credit for these attacks, we know just how wrong he was.

“Let’s assume we were to send 50,000 troops into Syria; what happens if there is a terrorist attack generated from Yemen?”

“When we send troops in, those troops get injured”. Or what if there is a terrorist network that is operating anywhere else in North Africa or in Southeast Asia? At one point Obama complained in that the questions have been getting repetitive – which merely underscored in that his answers weren’t satisfying the press corps. Their aim is to convince the rebel groups and the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to stop fighting each other and instead to fight ISIS.

Graham criticized the effort as being nowhere near enough to be effective.

“There will be an intensification of the strategy that we’ve put forward”, he said.

“I go back to the tone of this press conference”.