Obama Says Republicans’ Islamic State Tactics Would Be Folly
- President criticizes Ted Cruz's call for policing of Muslims
- Proposals for more bombing raids aren't a strategy, Obama says
Obama: Singling Out Muslims Is Un-American
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President Barack Obama said that defeating Islamic State is his “number one priority” and criticized proposals by the top two Republican presidential candidates to fight the terror group with extensive surveillance in the U.S. and wide-scale bombing abroad.
“I’ve got a lot of things on my plate but my top priority is to defeat ISIL and eliminate the scourge of this barbaric terrorism that’s been taking place around the world,” Obama said a day after the group took credit for bombings in Brussels that killed at least 31 people.