Posted on 08/31/2014 10:02:33 PM PDT by Steelfish
'Too Cautious' Obama Urged To Get Tough On Russia and ISIS Republicans and Democrats call on president to take harder approach on Russian intervention in Ukraine and Isis in Syria
Kerry: airstrikes alone will not defeat genocidal Isis
Dan Roberts in Washington 31 August
Barack Obama was on Sunday urged to take a tougher approach towards Russia and Syria, as Republicans and Democrats returned from their summer vacations in confrontational mood.
After a week in which the president was criticised for failing to develop military plans for tackling Islamic State militants inside Syria and taking a relatively cautious approach to Russian incursions in Ukraine, senior figures in Congress took turns to demand greater US intervention.
Senator Robert Menendez, the Democratic chairman of the foreign relations committee and an administration loyalist, called for the US to arm the Ukrainian military with advanced weapons, that it might defend itself against Russia.
This is a watershed moment, said Menendez, speaking from the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, where he is on the latest of a series of congressional fact-finding visits. Thousands of Russian troops are here and are directly engaged in what is clearly an invasion.
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"Several Republicans were even more gung-ho"
if you have any intention of protecting America, he would show up to his national security briefings wouldn’t he?
Over his head? Isn’t this the guy who told the Russians He’ll be “able to do more when I’m reelected”.
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