President Obama Lays Out His ISIS Strategy (Tom Ashbrook, On Point)

Talk about a speech that this president never wanted to give.  That had to be it last night.  The man who called the Iraq War “dumb,” who pushed relentlessly to get out, coming before the nation to announce US forces headed back in, for years.  Not in a repeat of the Iraq War, President Obama insisted.  Something different.  But a strategy that puts America front and center again, in a vicious fight, in a political and religious tangle.  Will it work to “degrade and destroy” the Islamic State?  This hour, On Point:  President Obama’s new battle plan in Iraq and beyond.

Interview:
http://onpoint.wbur.org/2014/09/11/obama-speech-isis