Republican Leaders: Get Ready for U.S. Troops on the Ground in Iraq and Syria
http://bit.ly/1zfNXza House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) did not mince words during their joint- appearance on 60 Minutes Sunday night in berating President Obama’s strategy for defeating ISIS and other terrorist threats in the Middle East. Related Stories Republicans Rip Obama for Misleading Americans on ISIS The Fiscal Times Defeating ISIS: Just a Skirmish or a War? The Fiscal Times President Touts Foreign-Policy Approach The Wall Street Journal [$$] Months of Airstrikes Fail to Slow Islamic State in Syria The Wall Street Journal Obama Would Violate Budget Control Act with $34B More for Defense The Fiscal Times In a bruising assessment of Obama’s State of the Union address last Tuesday, Boehner complained to CBS’s Scott Pelley, “The president didn’t spend but a few seconds talking about the terrorist threat that we as Americans face. This problem is growing all over the world, and the president is trying to act like it’s not there. It’s going to be a threat to our homeland if we don’t address it in a bigger way,” he added, pointing to the recent terrorist attacks in Paris and elsewhere. http://yhoo.it/1yFhRKa
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