House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers said Monday that President Obama was making a “gear shift” in strategy to more aggressively confront the terrorist army known as Islamic State.
“This is a gear shift for the president. I think that’s important,” Mr. Rogers, Michigan Republican, said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”
“Obviously, [with] his discussions in NATO, he believed that he had support there in NATO. All of that is progress in this particular case,” he said.
Mr. Obama, who attended a NATO summit in Wales over the weekend, is scheduled Wednesday to address the U.S. with a new plan for battling the Islamic State, which is also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant or ISIL.
Mr. Rogers called for the president to present a plan that would “dismantle all of ISIL,” adding that the terrorist army cannot be defeated by “remote control.”
“I’m talking about intelligence services and special capability soldiers. Not big army units,” he said. “What we can do is add leverage. But, when you add leverage, that means some U.S. forces are going to be exposed.”
• S.A. Miller can be reached at smiller@washingtontimes.com.
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