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Too Calm, Too Rational: Do We Need More Vim From President Obama in the War Against ISIS?

Too Calm, Too Rational: Do We Need More Vim From President Obama in the War Against ISIS?

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The Gist
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Dec. 1 2015 7:08 PM

Thank God This Guy’s President

The right and wrong things Obama is doing in both his actions and rhetoric when it comes to ISIS.

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Kashmiri demonstrators hold up a flag of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL, during a demonstration against Israeli military operations in Gaza, in downtown Srinagar, July 18, 2014.

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