As Twitchy reported, President Obama revealed his super-strategic strategy for dealing with ISIS: Shrinking ISIS down “to the point where it is a manageable problem.” Because terrorists are people to be “managed.”
This afternoon, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel went on CNN, where he attempted to, uh, clarify the White House’s position:
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Hagel tells @jimsciutto that "degrade and destroy" is the goal with ISIS, not containing — as perhaps suggested by "manageable problem"
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) September 3, 2014
Let’s just go to the videotape, shall we?
Transcript:
Hagel: The president’s point being to degrade and destroy their capability, so that it doesn’t get to [the point where ISIS is a threat to the U.S. homeland]. We know they’re a threat, we know they’re brutal. We know that they are — as I’ve said, as others have said — something that we’ve never seen before. They’re better organized, they’re better funded, they have more capability, they’re better structured. There’s a dangerous, dangerous ideology of a brutality, a barbaric nature that we’ve not seen before, so my job as secretary of defense is not to second-guess what may be, or what’s going to be, but we’ve got to protect, do everything we can to protect our country, protect our interests at the command of our commander in chief.
For the record, he’s referring to the same commander in chief who thinks “brutal,” “barbaric” terrorists with a network unlike anything we’ve ever seen before can be made “manageable.”
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No kidding.
Hagel: POTUS was clear in saying mission is "to degrade and destroy the capability of ISIL" to go after U.S./allies' interests. #CNN
— CNN NationalSecurity (@NatSecCNN) September 3, 2014
That? That was clear? Could’ve fooled us.
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It's fun watching the entire Administration scramble to "clarify" the Greatest Orator in History's remarks every time he opens his mouth.
— John Hayward (@Doc_0) September 3, 2014
Exit question:
Who is going to clean up Hagel's clean up of Obama's mess?
— Drew McCoy (@_Drew_McCoy_) September 3, 2014
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