CNN’s ISIS expert Michael Weiss told Wolf Blitzer Sunday that the terror group would laugh at the speech President Obama delivered earlier that evening. (VIDEO: Obama Calls Gun Control A ‘Matter Of National Security’)
BLITZER: How’s ISIS likely, Michael, to react to the president’s address?
WEISS: Well, I think they’ll laugh, frankly. I heard in the president’s remarks, I heard self-congratulation and cheerleading. “We will destroy ISIL. We will defeat this death cult,” as the president called it. Look, when the president came out and said ISIS is contained — and he was speaking specifically about the geographical expansion of their so-called caliphate — last week the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Statt repudiated those remarks … We’re actually not winning this war … I have not heard — and I really wish the president would say this — look, “I screwed up. I underestimated the threat. I called them the JV team well after I knew what Al Qaeda in Iraq was up to, including strapping mentally disabled young girls with suicide bombs and marching them into police headquarters.” … We have to be very realistic here. I’m not talking about alarmism. I’m not talking about fear-mongering, and I applaud him for drawing the distinction between Islam and ISIS, but I really think his head is in the clouds if he thinks this current strategy is going to succeed.