ISIS Is Contained, President Obama?

The November 13 Paris terrorist attack was well-coordinated with suicide bombings, grenade attacks,
deadly shootings and hostage taking. As body counts rose, France’s borders closed and a state of emergency was declared. Hours later, the Islamic State [ISIS] threatened that was just the first with more to follow.

Seated somewhere in a parallel universe the day before the attacks, President Obama told ABC News he believed ISIS was contained and controlled. Granted, that was prior to the Paris attacks, but it was as if he was completely unaware of the group’s expansion worldwide with recent ISIS-related bombings in Beirut, the downed Russian passenger jet in Sinai, recent beheadings of women and a child in Afghanistan, and massacres in Pakistan, Iraq and Syria.

For reasons only they can explain, President Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton chose to ignore ISIS back before it grew into the scourge of the civilized world. Token drone hits, like the supposed recent drone killing of “Jihadi John,” are positive, but fall far short of the action needed in the region to make a significant difference
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If you’ve ever watched toddlers play “Hide and Go Seek,” they cover their eyes, because they think they are invisible. Mr. Obama and Mrs. Clinton built a foreign policy around that mentality, believing they could somehow “will” Islamic extremism into obscurity by pretending it wasn’t there. Or at least convince the electorate there was nothing to see before the 2012 elections, suggesting al Qaeda was “decimated” and ISIS was a “jayvee” team.

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