Obama’s Incomplete ISIS Strategy is ‘Policy Failure’: Expert

It was shockingly and depressingly candid.

“We don’t have, yet, a compete strategy” to deal with ISIS, President Obama conceded Monday. “The details are not worked out.”

You could find that a laudable concession to reality. After all, we live in a world where the enemy is stateless, old strategies don’t fit and key allies aren’t trustworthy — including Iraq and Turkey.

So it’s unfair to totally blame Obama. But don’t leave him off the hook. The fumbling is painfully obvious.

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“It’s a policy failure and he can be faulted for lack of a strategy,” said terrorism expert Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies in Washington.

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