After Obama’s campaign speech last night to ‘destroy’ ISIS without American boots on the ground, Lurch John Kerry Heinz has declared that this country is not at war with ISIS. First, Obama claims the ISLAMIC State ISIS is not Islamic now Lurch claims we aren’t at war with ISIS. If we aren’t at war with them, then why even bother with air strikes? This is your Obama foreign policy team.
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday would not say the United States is at war with ISIS, telling CNN in an interview that the administration’s strategy includes “many different things that one doesn’t think of normally in context of war.”
“What we are doing is engaging in a very significant counterterrorism operation,” Kerry told CNN’s Elise Labott in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. “It’s going to go on for some period of time. If somebody wants to think about it as being a war with ISIL, they can do so, but the fact is it’s a major counterterrorism operation that will have many different moving parts.”
Kerry made a distinction between ISIS and terror groups operating in Somalia and Yemen.
“ISIL is an animal unto itself,” he said. “And it is significantly such a threat because of the foreign fighters that are attracted to it — which you don’t see in Somalia or … Yemen.” Most importantly, Kerry said, ISIL has attracted a “significant coalition” that is determined to go and destroy it.