Krauthammer Shocked by Obama's "No Strategy" for ISIS"

Krauthammer Shocked by Obama's "No Strategy" for ISIS"
  

 Responding to the President Obama’s announcement in a news conference Thursday that he had "no strategy" for dealing with ISIS in Syria, Charles Krauthammer condemned the president’s “do nothing” foreign policy and advised him that if he really doesn’t have a strategy, at very least don’t broadcast it to the world.

On “Special Report with Breit Baier” Thursday, a “shocked” Krauthammer slammed the president for getting in front of cameras and announcing to the world his lack of a plan for addressing ISIS in Syria:

I thought that the president could no longer surprise me. I was wrong. He shocked me today. The President of the United States, in the middle of a real crisis, a few days after the beheading of an American—deliberately sort of spiting in the face of the country and demonstrating its cruelty—the president gets in front of the world and says, “I don't have a strategy.” If that is true, don't say anything. Why do you announce you don't have a strategy?

Krauthammer argued that what was even worse was the president’s inaction on Ukraine, where he has let yet another “red line” be crossed with no real consequences, allowing Russia to orchestrate an “incursion” (the Obama administration refuses now to use the term “invasion”) with only the passive announcement Thursday that he was waiting to “chat with allies next week”:

He basically said on Ukraine, “I do have a strategy. The strategy is to do absolutely nothing.” He said, you know. “Russia is only hurting itself. I can see that”—the rest of the world probably will see it later, but he can see that. “Russia has stupidly declined to take all the off-ramps I’ve offered it in Ukraine, it’s only losing, it’s more isolated in Ukraine.” And he basically said, we're going to do nothing, “I'll wait until I chat with the allies next week."

I though he had a phone. How about picking up the phone and talking with the allies? You know, the phone is a way to communicate rather rapidly.

Krauthammer went on to argue that Russia’s “incursion” was “obviously an invasion,” and one in response to which Obama should have at least announced the sanctions he’s been threatening “for months” instead of further reinforcing the dangerous international message that his administration is content to sit on the sidelines.

Obama said there's nothing new here, move along - as if the sending of a column of tanks, armored personnel carriers, and self-repelled artillery into Ukraine is not what it obviously is—it's an invasion.