The Patriot Post® · Responding to Obama's 'No Strategy' Declaration

We’re not the only ones astounded that Barack Obama would announce, “We have no strategy yet” for dealing with ISIL in Syria. A former Pentagon official who served in Iraq said, “One has to wonder what sort of signal this administration is sending to [ISIL] by using tough rhetoric on one hand and then contravening what top officials just said. It’s not just demoralizing to those who want to stop [ISIL] in its tracks, but [ISIL] is just going to act with greater impunity now if they believe they got a free pass. Every single [ISIL] leader was watching that.” He’s right on the money. Obama just summed up why it was a mistake to elect a community organizer as commander in chief.

Meanwhile, political analyst Charles Krauthammer was incredulous: “I thought that the president could no longer surprise me. I was wrong. He shocked me today. The president of the United States, in the middle of a real crisis, a few days after the beheading of an American, deliberately sort of spitting in the face of the country and demonstrating his cruelty, the president gets in front of the world and says, ‘I don’t have a strategy.’ If that is true, don’t say anything. Why do you announce that you don’t have a strategy?”