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   From: democrat.cowardice@abc.com   
      
   The contrast between Friday’s press conference in London by   
   British Prime Minister David Cameron and Thursday’s White House   
   remarks by President Obama could not have been starker.   
      
   Mr. Cameron delivered a robust assessment of the scale of the   
   Islamist threat to Great Britain and to the free world.   
      
   He told journalists assembled at Downing Street that “what we   
   are facing in Iraq now with ISIL (Islamic State) is a greater   
   threat to our security than we have seen before.”   
      
   While David Cameron appeared self-assured and determined in his   
   approach, Barack Obama came across as a deer in the headlights,   
   unable to outline a coherent U.S. response to a rapidly growing   
   crisis in the Middle East.   
      
   He made it clear that ISIS must not be allowed to establish an   
   Islamist caliphate in Iraq. If they succeeded, “we would be   
   facing a terrorist state on the shores of the Mediterranean and   
   bordering a NATO member.”   
      
   In announcing his government’s decision to raise the UK   
   terrorism threat level to “severe,” the PM announced a series of   
   measures to combat the Islamist threat within Britain itself,   
   including tough new measures against British-born, self-styled   
   “jihadists,” hundreds of whom have traveled to Iraq and Syria in   
   recent months to fight with ISIS.   
      
   Cameron addressed the Islamist menace head-on, declaring that   
   “the root cause of this threat to our security is clear: it is a   
   poisonous ideology of Islamic extremism that is condemned by all   
   states.”   
      
   In contrast, President Obama’s remarks to the White House press   
   corps Thursday were weak-kneed, meandering and confused, sending   
   mixed messages both to America’s enemies and the American people.   
      
   Mr. Obama revealed that his administration currently has “no   
   strategy” for dealing with the ISIS threat, words that no doubt   
   reassured the group’s murderous leadership, currently waging a   
   campaign of terror across vast swathes of Iraq and Syria.   
      
   While David Cameron appeared self-assured and determined in his   
   approach, Barack Obama came across as a deer in the headlights,   
   unable to outline a coherent U.S. response to a rapidly growing   
   crisis in the Middle East.   
      
   As the British Prime Minister pointed out, ISIS, Al Qaeda, and   
   Islamist militants across the world pose a grave threat to our   
   security and interests. They must be combated at home and   
   abroad. Both the United States and Great Britain must be   
   prepared to lead the free world in the defeat of ISIS and its   
   cohorts. The alternative to bold US and British leadership is an   
   Iraq that descends into medieval-style barbarism, dominated by   
   brutal terrorists, whose very goal is the destruction of the   
   West.   
      
   Friday, Mr. Cameron issued an important warning to the world,   
   one that should be heeded by a White House that badly needs a   
   clear sense of direction and a real strategy for winning the   
   global war against the Islamists.   
      
   http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2014/08/29/isis-threat-david-   
   cameron-stands-up-to-islamists-lesson-for-barack-obama/   
      
       
      
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