“Republicans are pushing President Obama to clarify his plans for combating the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) following the beheading of an American journalist last week.
“’I get the sense that [Defense] Secretary [Chuck] Hagel and [Joint Chiefs] General [Martin] Dempsey understand the gravity of the situation. Candidly … I don’t want to hear from the president how he’s reacting to events like the Mosul Dam,” House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation.’
“‘What I want to hear from our commander in chief is that he has a strategy to finish ISIS off. To defeat ISIS,” Ryan said. “If we don’t deal with this threat now thoroughly and convincingly, it’s going to come home to roost.’
“The former Republican vice presidential nominee was hardly the only GOP member to take to the airwaves to criticize Obama’s handling of ISIS on Sunday.” *
The Young Turks’ hosts John Iadarola (http://twitter.com/jiadarola), Ben Mankiewicz (http://twitter.com/benmank77) and Wesley Clark Jr. break down the story.
* Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/defense/215848-gop-demands-isis-plan-from-obama#ixzz3BPSsgh9N