Foreign Policy Editor David Rothkopf said President Obama’s "under-reacting" to international crises has "caused new threats to rise."
During an interview with MSNBC’s The Cycle, Rothkopf said that Obama’s response to George W. Bush’s perceived "over-reacting" to 9/11 has resulted in a "tragic irony."
"Obama was elected to go in the other direction, has gone, effectively, too far in the other direction, is under-reacting," Rothkopf said. "That has caused new threats to rise. And the signature of that looks like it’s going to be a war in Iraq. So that’s a kind of tragic irony."
Rothkopf also said that the U.S. military was in need of "clear leadership" from the civilian side of government rather than a "reactionary" administration.
"We see a crisis, we respond to it. We see potential bad press, we respond to it," Rothkopf said. "When we try to articulate a strategy as the president did with regard to ISIS, we don't really get fully to where we identify our goals, the outcomes, who's really going to help us do the heavy lifting and how we're going to get there."