Republican presidential hopefuls chide Obama for terror speech

“Where is the evidence that we have widespread discrimination against Muslims?” he said.

Although the president said his administration is constantly examining its counter-terrorism strategy to see if additional steps are needed to protect Americans, his speech included no new policy changes or announcements. Rubio called for a “substantial ground army”.

“That is when he said ‘that’s exactly what ISIS wants.’ I think he hit it right on the head, because ISIS wants that fear so that people have that anti-Muslim sentiment”.

In other tweets, Trump excused Obama for reading a prepared speech off of a teleprompter, but said he hoped Obama wouldn’t criticize Second Amendment gun rights.

“We are having a tremendous problem with radical Islamic terrorism”, Trump said on CBS’s “Face the Nation” program which aired yesterday.

The Republican primary has been marked of late by a focus on national security following both the San Bernardino shooting and the terrorist attacks that struck Paris on 13 November.

“People are scared not just of these attacks but becaue of a…sense we have a president who is completely overwhelmed by them”, Rubio said. The address followed weeks of escalating criticism that Obama had not conveyed sufficient urgency in combating the ISIS threat.

Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, appearing on Fox News Sunday, called for a “better job of monitoring the Internet”. Unusual that it took four days from the attack to respond and even more odd that somehow the attack on our soil is proof his policies are working. “One must wonder who has contained who”.

In a wide ranging speech delivered from a lectern, Obama also called on Silicon Valley to help address the threat of militant groups using social media and electronic communications to plan and promote violence, setting up renewed debate over personal privacy online.

“President Obama has finally been forced to abandon the political fantasy he has perpetuated for years that the threat of terrorism was receding”, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush said in a statement. We need to remove the self-imposed constraints President Obama has placed on our intelligence community and military, and we need to put in place an aggressive strategy to defeat ISIS and radical Islamic terrorism as I have proposed. “That’s a real problem that Muslims must confront without excuse”, Obama said in just his third such message from his inner sanctum in the West Wing.

“The need for action is urgent”, she said. We have always met challenges – whether war or depression; natural disasters or terrorist attacks – by coming together around our common ideals as one nation, as one people.

Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and Martin O’Malley have yet to comment on the President’s remarks.

“He should be more honest on that with the American public and with the rest of the world”, Zeldin said, and he should “give commanders the flexibility and resources to accomplish their mission and don’t tie their hands behind their back with flawed rules of engagement”.