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Lieberman: Obama lacks coherent anti-terror plan [View all]
Source: Associated Press
Lieberman: Obama lacks coherent anti-terror plan
AP foreign, Wednesday January 15 2014
LAURIE KELLMAN
Associated Press= WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Sen. Joe Lieberman told a House panel Wednesday that President Barack Obama has "no coherent" anti-terrorism strategy in embattled countries where al-Qaida is gaining new influence, and that's endangering the United States.
"I do not, today, see a credible or coherent U.S. strategy right now, for exactly those countries — Syria, Iraq and Libya-that most threaten to emerge as al-Qaida's newest and most dangerous footholds," Connecticut's Lieberman, who retired from the Senate this year, told the Homeland Security Committee.
"If we don't do something more than we're doing now, they're going to tip over," Lieberman added of those countries. And if that happens, "we're going to get attacked again."
It was the latest criticism of the Obama administration's policy toward the Middle East, five years after the president pledged to remake the nation's relationship with the region and improve America's image in the Muslim world.
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AP foreign, Wednesday January 15 2014
LAURIE KELLMAN
Associated Press= WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Sen. Joe Lieberman told a House panel Wednesday that President Barack Obama has "no coherent" anti-terrorism strategy in embattled countries where al-Qaida is gaining new influence, and that's endangering the United States.
"I do not, today, see a credible or coherent U.S. strategy right now, for exactly those countries — Syria, Iraq and Libya-that most threaten to emerge as al-Qaida's newest and most dangerous footholds," Connecticut's Lieberman, who retired from the Senate this year, told the Homeland Security Committee.
"If we don't do something more than we're doing now, they're going to tip over," Lieberman added of those countries. And if that happens, "we're going to get attacked again."
It was the latest criticism of the Obama administration's policy toward the Middle East, five years after the president pledged to remake the nation's relationship with the region and improve America's image in the Muslim world.
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