CIA Director Affirms Obama’s ISIS Strategy Not Working

 

Daily Signal - Thursday June 16, 2016

by Bridget Mudd

No Mr. President—we aren’t winning the war against ISIS.

The head of the CIA, John Brennan testified on Thursday that, “despite all our progress against [Islamic State] on the battlefield and in the financial realm, our efforts have not reduced the group’s terrorism capacity and global reach.”

In fact, the Islamic State (ISIS) is actively recruiting, training, and deploying operatives for future attacks in the west.

According to his remarks, “[ISIS] has a large cadre of western fighters who could potentially serve as operatives for attacks in the west… the group is probably exploring a variety of means for infiltrating operatives into the west, including refugee flows, smuggling routes and legitimate methods of travel.”

So, ISIS has not been contained—or even deterred. This revelation really shouldn’t surprise us.

The Obama administration has stubbornly maintained their position that we are actively containing and defeating ISIS despite all contracting evidence. Reality and hard facts appear irrelevant. Plus, the Obama administration knows how to spin a narrative.

In the wake of Orlando, the U.S. needs to double-down against ISIS both at home and abroad. Overseas, the U.S. should proactively double-down and lead a multi-pronged global effort to deny ISIS territory, disrupt recruitment efforts, and uproot its destructive ideology.

At home, the U.S. should reform the counterterrorism enterprise by refocusing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on intelligence capabilities and improving coordination between DHS and other agencies.

For the sake of our safety and security, the Obama administration needs to abandon its position that we are winning this war and take a good look at the hard facts.

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