In Wake of ISIS Attacks, Obama Delivers National Address With No New Strategies

The speech was vintage Obama, right up to the petulant impugning of his domestic opponents’ motives, the setting up of straw men and the renewed calls for stricter gun control laws.

Mike Gonzales, --December 7, 2015

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President Barack Obama clearly meant to convey the seriousness of the situation we currently face as a nation from the terrorist group known as the Islamic State (ISIS) by delivering his third address to the nation from the Oval Office Sunday night. The address, however, did not contain any new strategy, or any new ideas, about how to defeat a group that has in quick succession downed a Russian liner and killed 130 people in the heart of Paris and 14 in San Bernardino, the largest terrorist attack in our homeland since Sept. 11, 2001.
The speech was vintage Obama, right up to the petulant impugning of his domestic opponents’ motives, the setting up of straw men and the renewed calls for stricter gun control laws. The president even started the 15-minute speech by reminding us that the victims from the terrorist attack in San Bernardino, Calif., last Wednesday were “white and black; Latino and Asian”—something obviously of great import to Obama but of little value in devising a winning strategy to keep the nation safe. More...

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