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McConnell: Obama ‘Yet to Find His Footing’ on Confronting ISIS

By Humberto Sanchez and JM Rieger

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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., blamed Obama’s foreign policy for the growth of ISIS and said he wants to president “to lay out a credible plan” to the American people Thursday night. “In my view, we have a duty as a super power, without imperialistic aims, to help maintain international order and balance of power,” McConnell said. “And in my view that international order is maintained by American military might. … But that is not a view this president seems to share.”

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