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At least the Brits have a leader willing to face up to the problem of radical Islamists. Better than that, Cameron is even willing to state publicly that radical Islam is the enemy. Political correctness prevents Obama from admitting that plain truth.

U.S. President Barack Obama has admitted that he has no immediate strategy to tackle advancing IS jihadists.

Obama hasn't come up with a way to go after ISIS in a manner that will help his party keep the Senate in November. President Obama is paralyzed by indecision. Democrats will not come out to vote if the man who ends wars and wins a Nobel Peace prize for being for appeasement starts another war in the Middle East. This problem will fester at least until after the election barring a game changing terrorist attack in Europe.

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At least Cameron's got balls! The man was on vacation, ended it to go back to London deal with this serious threat and to find out who the perpetrator was who murdered Foley and is taking decisive action and the terror threat seriously, while Obama in typical Obama fashion, has NO idea, NO clue as to how to deal with ISIS and not to polarize the situation and refusing to call it what it really is. The White House said the other day that ISIS is an offshoot of Al Qaeda and that they are essentially the same organization, which is utter BS! They are an entirely different entity, even Al Qaeda disowned them. That means if Obama wants to wage an attack on ISIS, he has to go to congress and the Dems have to draft up a new resolution, which is the absolute last thing they want to get themselves involved in. This is very bad for the Dems at this time, we have an election coming and if things get worse (and you know they will) they cannot use the previous draft that Bush and the Republicans wrote to confront and wage war against Al Qaeda and since ISIS is NOT Al Qaeda, the Dems have to go back and vote on a new resolution add to that, they have NO strategy and in many areas don't want to admit, take this threat seriously. The constant dithering is costing the Dems big time and they are kidding themselves if they think they will come out of this unscathed. Cameron is doing exactly what a leader should do and is taking radical Islamists seriously. His admission was embarrassing, sickening, deplorable, he looks even weaker now as a leader, pathetic and anyone thinking this is an Obama strategy needs to go and see a shrink. He constantly ignores military advice, he won't work with Republicans and he needs to put petty politics aside and get more aggressive with ISIS. He doesn't have to go into Iraq and send thousands of troops at least for now. But Obama conveys weakness and why, as Wolfpack said, for him it's always party first and to be politically correct. I have never been so ashamed of being an American. 874 more days to go until the madness ends.

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Cameron is all talk and no action. He won't actually do anything; extremists will still be allowed to settle in the UK and those already there will not be deported.

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@Wolfpack

Obama hasn't come up with a way to go after ISIS in a manner that will help his party keep the Senate in November.

Never mind that, Obama hasn't come up with a way to go after ISIS in a manner that will prevent the loss of innocent Americans.

@bass4funk

874 more days to go until the madness ends.

We can only hope. Even if that does happen, we have to figure out a way to root out all of the far-Left radicals who have entrenched themselves in the agencies throughout the government's bureaucracy.

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'Cameron is all talk and no action. He won't actually do anything; extremists will still be allowed to settle in the UK and those already there will not be deported.'

Spot on. The election is coming up next year, one Tory MP has already defected to UKIP and he needs to toughen up his rightwing credentials. How other posters are taken in by this shows a stunning ignorance of Cameron - many in his own party are sick of a front man even less sincere than Blair.

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The stupid Western aid for the "Arab Spring" aka Sunni islamist uprising comes back to roost. None of this would have happened if Obama et al had not supported the Jihadis in Tunesia, Libya, and Syria.

Lets see if they at least have enough intelligence to reverse course now.

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How other posters are taken in by this shows a stunning ignorance of Cameron - many in his own party are sick of a front man even less sincere than Blair.

Cameron may very well be all talk but at least he is articulating a rational viewpoint in response to the seriousness of the threat that ISIS presents. Obama is still in denial that there are actually people that do not agree with his 21st century sensibilities. "The arc of the moral universe may be long and bend towards justice", but it does not do so all by itself. It will be a lot longer if good men (and countries) stand by and do nothing in the face of injustice.

Bin Laden declared war on America and the developed world and Clinton passed on bringing him to justice. ISIS has now also declared war on America. Obama is golfing.

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