Obama's indifference to the terror threat results in losing effort on all fronts

Washington Examiner:

The White House waited five days after the shooting rampage that killed five servicemen in Chattanooga, Tenn., before lowering the flags on federal buildings to half-staff.

It took the administration more than five years to describe the 2009 Fort Hood massacre as domestic terrorism rather than "workplace violence" and grant the victim purple hearts, a designation of honor reserved for combat deaths.

Critics say both delays demonstrate a lukewarm, less-than-urgent response from President Obama to the domestic terror threat amid a surge in Islamic terror activity over the last year, which has seen the rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria and the group's barbaric march across the Middle East. The flap over the flag quickly became the latest example of how the White House is slow to react to these events when they happen.

Asked why the White House waited five days after the Chattanooga shootings to lower the flags on federal building, and only after Congress had already done so, a spokesman said he didn't have a good explanation.

"I don't have a lot of insight to provide to you in terms of that decision-making process other than to note that it's a decision that was made and announced yesterday," White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Wednesday.

The lack of a rationale gave critics an easy opening to step in with a broader critique of how the U.S. is dealing with the larger issue of domestic terrorism.

"I believe we are losing on both fronts in this war against Islamic terror," Rep. Mike McCaul, a Texas Republican who chairs the Homeland Security Committee, said Wednesday in a speech at the Heritage Foundation. "Our enemies have the momentum and they have thrown us off balance — the numbers don't lie … by any measure we have failed to turn the tide against them."
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The US is suffering under an administration that thinks it can retreat its way to victory.  That has led to the establishment of ISIL in the Middle East and attacks on the homeland.  It apparently does not trust the military to carry weapons to defend themselves from attack inside the US.  This has the effect of making them safer in a "war zone" outside the country than at their home base.

The administration has no effective strategy for defeating the enemy.  It appears to be trying to manage the conflict until they leave office and can hand off the problem to someone else.