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To its critics, President Obama's strategy to combat the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq is weak and incoherent. Even some of the staunchest U.S. allies and partners in the fight worry that the time for what they see as the administration's incremental approach has long since passed. The White House maintains that its strategy is comprehensive and that it's working. Sharp increases in airstrikes and Obama's recent decision to deploy Special Operations troops, officials say, are part of a fundamental change in the military's mission developed this fall, along with a new diplomatic push to end the distraction of...

President Obama showed a flash of anger Monday with Republican critics of his anti-terrorism strategy, saying he is “too busy” to engage in a rhetorical debate with them. “What I’m not interested in doing is posing or pursuing some notion of American leadership, or American winning or whatever other slogans they come up with, that has no relationship to what actually is going to work to protect the American people” and America’s allies, Mr. Obama said at a news conference in Turkey. “I’m too busy for that.” The president was addressing a question about critics of his strategy for defeating...

(This file photo from the last successful test of U.S. missile defense capabilities shows, a ground-based interceptor missile lifts off from Vandenberg AFB in California on December 5, 2008, en route to intercept with and destroy a target missile launched in Alaska several minutes earlier. Since then there have been three failed tests of the system, the most recent on July 5, 2013.) (CNSNews.com) – As the array of foreign missiles capable of reaching the United States grows, four Republican lawmakers are pressing Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel for assurances after a third consecutive failed test of “the only national...

It's just as simple as that folks, if we do not secure our borders, we have no country. It's absolutely madness not to secure our nation, not to secure our borders especially during war time!! The president is defying the constitution, defying the law and defying we the people by not enforcing the law!! He's a traitor! The BOSTON MASSACRE is a direct result of his TREASON!! The senators and congressmen who go along with his treason are also TRAITORS!! NO!! Do not open our borders!! Flush the 800 page treasonous open borders declaration!! Do not reward the law breakers...