The White House’s strategy for combating ISIS is a moving target. The varying ways in which the threat of the Islamic State has been described by White House officials describes the confusion inside the administration over how to confront this challenge.

One day, the Islamic State like “beyond anything we’ve seen” and a “threat to every interest we have.” Another, ISIS is only a marginal danger to the United States because “we’ve gotten a lot better at protecting ourselves” since 9/11. In one speech, the president says America’s goal is to “degrade and destroy” ISIS, but later in that same speech he says the aim is really to “shrink” them into a “manageable problem.”

On Wednesday night, Obama delivered a speech on the ISIS threat many on his left felt represented the declaration of a new war in the Middle East. The following day, his administration insists that we are not at war with a group which executed a “terrorist attack” against the United States. To the extent that there are any hostilities ongoing in the Middle East, they are part of the same conflict in which America has been engaged since September 11, 2001.

It’s almost like the White House has no national security strategy, and is really just making it up as they go along. Well, it turns out that the only reason it seems like the White House has no strategy is because they don’t.

Via The Washington Examiner’s Susan Crabtree, President Barack Obama’s White House is encountering some resistance from Congress over their request to approve a plan which would transport opposition fighters from Syria to other Middle Eastern countries where they would be armed, trained, and eventually reintroduce into that war-torn nation to fight ISIS. The resistance is not over that plan in particular, but over the fact that the administration has not submitted an national security strategy, as they are required to do by law every year, since the spring of 2010.

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"It’s almost like the White House has no national security strategy..."

Almost?