Graham, a member of the Senate Armed
Services Committee, told “Fox News Sunday” that the well-funded,
swiftly-strengthening organization, which has taken control of large parts of
both Middle East countries, is a “direct threat to our homeland.”
“Mr. President, be honest with the threat we face,” Graham said.
“They are coming.”
Graham was critical of the president's decision
late last week to order a series of limited airstrikes at Islamic State military
installations in northern Iraq to stop members from killing American personnel
and the thousands of Christians, Kurds and others who have fled into the Sinjar
Mountains.
However, he posed no solution or his own strategy, as
public-opinion polls show the American public is war weary and reluctant to send
U.S. troops back into Iraq.
Graham’s argument also follows a Vice News
video that appears to show an Islamic State militant saying, “We will raise the
flag of Allah in the White House.” The video was released before Obama ordered
the air strikes, in addition to humanitarian-aid drops.
Sen. Ben Cardin,
D-Md., told Fox News that he supports the president’s strategy, particularly the
humanitarian effort and repeated the administration’s argument that the best way
to stop Islamic State is for Iraq to develop a stronger, more-inclusive
government.
However, California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a fellow
Democrat and the chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, is taking a
more hawkish stance, similar to Graham’s.
“It takes an army to defeat an
army, and I believe that we either confront [Islamic State] now or we will be
forced to deal with an even stronger enemy in the future,” she said Friday
after the airstrikes were announced. “Inaction is no longer an option.”
She and others have said for months that Islamic State is recruiting and
training fighters from Europe and the United States who could come home and
launch a terror attack.
Graham also argued that Islamic State’s
nearly unchecked rise is the result of Obama failing last year to take action
against the group in Syria, even after the FBI and other U.S. intelligence
officials warned the White House and Congress of its growing, global threat.
“Your game plan cannot protect the United States,” Graham said Sunday,
addressing Obama.
Such rhetoric tracks closely to that used in the
lead-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. In the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001,
attacks, lawmakers from both parties voted to give President George W. Bush the
authority to take military action against Iraq in the hopes of combating
terrorism.
At the time, many said the United States faced a choice of
fighting terrorism on American soil or on foreign soil.
Illinois
Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin, a close White House ally, said on NBC’s “Meet the
Press” that Islamic State fighters are a "growing and troublesome" threat but
“we must not send the troops."
A breakdown in talks between Washington
and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki that would have allowed U.S. troops to
remain in Iraq collapsed in 2008, and Obama withdrew troops in 2011.
Al-Maliki now is under mounting pressure to step aside, including requests from
U.S. lawmakers.
The Islamic State group, which some lawmakers refer to
as ISIS, or the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, is "getting stronger all the
time," warned Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.
"They have attracted
1,000 young men from around the world who are now fighting on their side," he
said on CNN's "State of the Union.” "This ISIS is metastasizing throughout
region. And their goal, as they've stated openly time after time, is the
destruction of United States of America."
Poster Comment:
I'd be
willing let ISIS occupy America just long enough to exterminate the militant
faggots/feminazi's and all of the congresscritters and federal judges, including
POTUS Obongo and his family.
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