Maybe, going back to what you said, it is contrived. The thing is though that President Obama’s apologetics for Islamic terrorism is not sitting well with the voters he is supposed to represent on the world stage. He looks foolish and dangerously naive, furthermore the “official line” is looking suspiciously like propaganda and censorship and even the president looks uncomfortable with the nonsense spewing from his own mouth. Giuliani said what’s on a lot of people’s minds and he knows it.
I’m still not voting for him though, and will do a write in for either of the Texans first.
Obama in this country and Cameron in the UK have reduced the size of armed forces even while making more military commitments to deal with the IS in Iraq or the Russians in Eastern Europe.
There is no military option involving defeat of any enemies with military means.
I read Peter Hitchens column in the “Daily Mail” some months ago where he expects the leaders of his country like Obama’s friend David Cameron to be at a negotiating table with the IS sometime in the future and the Islamic State will be normalized and guests at state dinners etc. etc.