ADVERTISEMENT

Fournier: Obama's ISIL Comments 'Passive' and 'Unsettling'

September 3, 2014

Political columnist Ron Fournier criticized the language President Obama used when speaking about the brutality of the ISIS terrorism.

Speaking to MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell on Tuesday afternoon, Fournier said the single most important question the White House needs to be asking is, "Do we see ISIL as a direct and immediate threat to the United States?"

"The President doesn't seem to think so, or at least he's having a hard time articulating that... I find it kind of unsettling that the President hasn't been able to say whether or not this Islamic State is a threat to the United States."

Fournier slammed Obama for his lack of a clear strategy Monday, pointing out the president's failure to acknowledge ISIL as an unprecedented threat to America.

Published under: Islamic State