Via Mediaite:
President Barack Obama has received a barrage of criticism from seemingly all sides since he said, during a press conference last week, “We don’t have a strategy yet” in reference to possible airstrikes in Syria against ISIS. But following the apparent beheading of American journalist Steven Sotloff today by that group, one member of the president’s party is defending his “prudent” approach.
Asked by CNN’s Jake Tapper to respond to those comments by Obama Tuesday, Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA) said that any notion that Obama has not been adequately combatting ISIS in Iraq is “not grounded in fact.”
“I think if you look at what the president has been doing, all the elements are there — at least the initial elements — of a broader strategy, which may not be completely worked out yet,” Casey said. “But there’s no question that the president was very prudent and I think very effective at putting in place the airstrikes, based upon good intelligence.”