This was scarcely the speech that President Obama wanted to deliver. But it was a speech that he had next to no choice about delivering. Faced with the surging ISIL forces in Iraq and Syria who not only have no compunction about beheading Americans but revel in it, Obama risked the collapse of his presidency if he remained as indolent about American security as he has been in recent years. He issued what amounted to a sober declaration of war that must have left the heads of his former anti-war supporters spinning, though perhaps they have become accustomed to his gyrations.
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