Elizabeth Warren, Hawk
Senator and possible presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren sounded a decidedly hawkish note regarding ISIL. She joins a handful of other Democrats who can only be described as perplexed at Barack Obama’s total lack of strategy. “[ISIL] is growing in strength. It has money, it has organization, it has the capacity to inflict real damage. So when we think about a response we have to think about how to destroy that,” Warren said. “We need to be working now, full-speed ahead, with other countries, to destroy [ISIL]. That should be our number one priority.” Obama’s first priority, on the other hand, needs to be figuring out whether he wants to destroy ISIL or just make it a “manageable problem.”