The Patriot Post® · Politicos Need to Reach People's Minds

Peggy Noonan: “People say Mr. Obama hasn’t spoken on the Islamic State with sufficient ‘passion,’ but the world at the moment probably doesn’t need more passion. He needs to speak with clarity, conviction and most of all credibility. Politicians always think they have to reach people’s hearts. They have to reach their minds. … Is the administration’s foreign-policy apparatus as rudderless, ad hoc and faux-sophisticated as it looks? Is the president starting to fear, deep down, that maybe he is the junior varsity? … The problem is really not that the president, as he said, does not yet have a strategy. It is that the world doesn’t know and the country doesn’t know how, deep down, he thinks about the Islamic State.”