The War on Terror 2.0

“We have contained them.”  Those words from U.S. President Barack Obama about the status of ISIS came the day before the Paris terrorist attacks and continues to reverberate around the world. 

The President has since said he was referring to stopping ISIS’ march across Iraq and Syria when he made those comments in an interview with ABC news.  But with ISIS taking responsibility for the deadly attacks in Paris, as well as the bombing of a Russian passenger plane over the Sinai, Obama’s critics accuse him of underestimating ISIS.

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