Obama admin will 'neither condemn nor condone' Egypt's attacks on ISIS

Last week, we watched in horror as the Islamic terrorists who call themselves ISIS beheaded 21 Egyptian Christians on a beach in Libya.

Or, if you're a member of the Obama administration... Last week, some random Egyptian civilians were killed by a mysterious organization that seems to adhere to no known ideology. Now, Egypt (a country that is willing to acknowledge reality) has launched a series of intense retaliatory attacks upon various ISIS strongholds. Unfortunately, U.S. leadership doesn't appear to be quite sure that wiping ISIS out is such a smart move. Despite the fact that Egypt is an ally, and we're both allegedly fighting the same batch of militant Islamists, American leadership is either unable or unwilling to endorse Egypt's actions. As The Daily Beast reports:

The Obama administration was given multiple chances Wednesday to endorse a longtime ally’s airstrikes on America’s biggest enemy at the moment, the so-called Islamic State. Over and over again, Obama’s aides declined to back Egypt’s military operation against ISIS. ...“We are neither condemning nor condoning” the Egyptian strikes, is all one U.S. official would tell The Daily Beast.

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Apparently, the White House is simply incapable of mustering the sort of intestinal fortitude required to endorse the elimination of people who are running around the Middle East slaughtering infants, torturing children, and raping women. Either that or the current leadership isn't really interested in labeling and stopping the atrocities Regardless, Egypt has noticed our reticence, and they don't seem to care for it one bit....

“The Egyptian military, in particular, is very frustrated with us,” one U.S. government official explained to The Daily Beast. “It is mutual frustration.” At a briefing with reporters Wednesday, Navy Rear Adm. John Kirby called the relationship with Egypt “complicated.” “We are constantly reviewing our relationship with Egypt,” Kirby said.

We can't imagine why a nation that's doing what it can to eliminate the most violent U.S. enemies in generations would be frustrated with our President's disinterest in doing the same. The fact of the matter is that we're closing in on a "time of choosing." United States citizens are going to have to decide. Is our President incapable of destroying ISIS, disinterested in destroying ISIS, or unwilling to destroy ISIS? Unfortunately, it has to be one of those three. After all, we have the most powerful military on the face of the Earth. If we chose to do so, we could take the gloves off and neuter ISIS in 30 days. Yet we've spent a year-and-a-half employing obscenely limited strategies that now seek to exploit the situation by using it to promote existing Obama administration goals like health care and wealth redistribution. At some point, we're going to have to ask ourselves: Is Obama a failure, or a sympathizer? Those are quickly becoming the only two options.