We have a reluctant commander in chief. Our intelligence has informed him of Islamic State power rising over the years. He has chosen to take no action. Everything he needed he had in order to take authority on our behalf, including top military advisers. Yet, he didn’t take action.
Now he has spoken. His decision is to commit air power only, rather than rooting out the enemy. The choice is to speak after two Americans are beheaded, and when public opinion sharply declines in his favor.
Where is the leadership? We are at present the greatest and most powerful nation in the world. The position requires commitment and resolve. What would our world look like if another entity took our place?
During World War II Britain had two very different prime ministers — Neville Chamberlain and Winston Churchill. The first was reluctant to take a stand; the second did so against harsh public opinion. The world would have looked very different today, if at that time Churchill hadn’t intervened for Britain and the free world.
