On Wednesday evening's Hugh Hewitt Show, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) called the Obama administration's policy regarding radical Islam incredibly weak: "What he’s doing is pretending to want to destroy ISIL when, in fact, he’s trying to get out of office without having to commit American ground forces to do the job as part of a team in the region, because he made a campaign promise."
Graham believes that attacks such as the one in the Paris office of Charlie Hebdo are a result of the President's refusal to send troops to fight radical Islam.
Hewitt: I want to play for you a couple of quick clips, Senator Graham, of the President talking generally about this problem of ISIS and radical jihad in ways that perhaps were not clear, cut number one:
Audio of President Obama: The future must not belong to those who slander the Prophet of Islam.
Hewitt: And cut number two:
Audio of President Obama: Now let’s make two things clear. ISIL is not Islamic.
Hewitt: Now on Sunday, on New Year’s Day, Senator Graham, the president of Egypt, al-Sisi…
Graham: Right.
Hewitt: …went to the al-Azhar University in Cairo, and told the imams assembled there that you are responsible before Allah. The entire world, I say it again, the entire world is waiting for your next move, because this ummah is being torn, is being destroyed, it is being lost, and it is being lost by our own hands. He called for a reform of Islam. Why can’t our President and our leaders say, speak truth to this situation the way that the president of Egypt just did?
Graham: I think the President of the United States is undercutting the president of Egypt. We’re in a religious war. These are not terrorists. They’re radical Islamists who are trying to replace our way of life with their way of life. Their way of life is motivated by religious teachings that require me and you to be killed, or enslaved, or converted. The President of the United States tip-toes around the threats we face, and he is trying to diminish the religious aspect of this war. Why? I don’t know. And he is not engaging the enemy in an aggressive fashion, which makes it more likely we’ll get attacked. What he’s doing is pretending to want to destroy ISIL, when in fact, he’s trying to get out of office without having to commit American ground forces to do the job as part of a team in the region, because he made a campaign promise. His campaign promises, Hugh, are getting a lot of people killed.
