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"I think you make the changes that you can, and you lay the groundwork and hopefully win the presidential election next time. Then I think we'll be in much better shape," said Rep. Tom Cole, Oklahoma Republican, looking ahead to the 2016 presidential contest. (Associated Press)

Rep. Tom Cole: ISIS galvanizing anti-terror coalition

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama speaks with British Prime Minister David Cameron as NATO leaders meet regarding Afghanistan at the NATO summit at Celtic Manor in Newport, Wales, Thursday, Sept. 4, 2014. From left are, Secretary of State John Kerry, the president, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Kerry, Hagel urge coalition against Islamic State

By Lolita C. Baldor - Associated Press

Kilroy was here (not) Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

FEIN: Necons’ U.S. foreign-policy delusions

By Bruce Fein

FILE - This file image posted on a militant website on Saturday, June 14, 2014, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, appears to show militants from the Islamic State group leading away captured Iraqi soldiers dressed in plain clothes after taking over a base in Tikrit, Iraq. Human Rights Watch, a leading international watchdog, said Wednesday, Sept 3, 2014, new evidence indicates the Islamic State fighters killed between 560 and 770 men captured at Camp Speicher, near the city of Tikrit &#8212; a figure several times higher than what was initially reported. The Human Rights Watch statement said the revised figure for the slain soldiers was based on analysis of new satellite imagery, militant videos and a survivor's account that confirmed the existence of three more "mass execution sites." (AP Photo via militant website, File)

US: Terrorist could get Syria chemical weapons

By ALEXANDRA OLSON - Associated Press

Demonstrators chant wave al Qaeda flags in front of the provincial government headquarters in Mosul, 225 miles (360 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq. An American member of the Islamic State has said attacks on the American homeland may be imminent. (Associated Press)

Islamic State defector: American members will carry out attacks in US

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

** FILE ** This undated file image posted on a militant website on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, shows fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) marching in Raqqa, Syria. (AP Photo/Militant Website, File)

U.S. worried terrorists could get hidden stockpiles of Syria’s chemical weapons

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U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., left, speaks to the Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaite prior to their meeting at the President palace in Vilnius, Lithuania, Friday, Aug. 22, 2014. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)

Bill Nelson’s plea: Congress must give Obama OK to target Islamic State

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

A still image from an undated video released by Islamic State militants shows journalist Steven Sotloff being held by the militant group. An Internet video purporting to show the beheading of U.S. journalist Sotloff by the Islamic State group was posted online Tuesday, a beheading described as retribution for continued U.S. airstrikes in Iraq. (AP Photo, File)

MCFARLANE: A plan for crushing the Islamic State

By Robert McFarlane

U.S. President Barack Obama speaks during a news conference with Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves at the Bank of Estonia in Tallinn, Estonia, Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2014. Obama is in Estonia for a one day visit where he will meet with Baltic State leaders before heading to the NATO Summit in Wales. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Obama vows to ‘degrade and destroy’ Islamic State after Sotloff beheading

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Illustration on Islamic State violence by Mark Weber/ Tribune Content Agency

McFARLANE: A plan for crushing the Islamic State

By Robert McFarlane

FILE - In this file still image from an undated video released by Islamic State militants on Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2014, purports to show journalist Steven Sotloff being held by the militant group. Islamic State militants called American journalist James Foley&#8217;s gruesome videotaped beheading revenge for U.S. airstrikes against the group, and they still hold at least three other Americans hostage, including Sotloff. (AP Photo, File)

Steven Sotloff purportedly beheaded by Islamic State group in video

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Illustration by Schrank, Handelszeitung, Zurich, Switzerland

LAMBRO: Obama’s wobbly foreign policy

By Donald Lambro

President Barack Obama holds a bobblehead doll of himself in the Outer Oval Office, May 14, 2014. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

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Obama underestimated Islamic State, misread motives of Putin, Assad: critics

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

** FILE ** This Sept. 4, 2013, file photo shows Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn. speaking with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Sen. Chris Murphy: Nothing wrong with Obama’s cautious approach to Islamic State

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Sacrificed: An image taken from a video released by the SITE Intelligence Group shows American journalist Steven Joel Sotloff, 31, just before his execution. (SITE Intelligence Group via Associated Press)

Islamic State beheading of second U.S. journalist accelerates calls for war

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

In this image made from an undated cartoon broadcast on state-run al-Iraqiya TV in Iraq, a cartoon character, shown with an Arabic word meaning member or supporter of the Islamic State group, and &quot;ISIS&quot; the outdated acronym of the group, appears before a cartoon show. Television networks across the Middle East have begun airing cartoons and comedy programs using satire to criticize the group and its claim of representing Islam. And while not directly confronting their battlefield gains, the shows challenge the legitimacy of the Islamic group and chips away at the fear some have that they are unstoppable. (AP Photo/al-Iraqiya)

Islamic State group becomes target of Arab satire

By Vivian Salama - Associated Press

Radio host and columnist Armstrong Williams. (Image courtesy of New Chapter Publisher)

WILLIAMS: A belligerent ISIS is not a US crisis

By Armstrong Williams

President Barack Obama, right, and first lady Michelle Obama board Air Force One before their departure from Andrews Air Force Base, Saturday, Aug. 30, 2014. The first family is attending the wedding of Sam Kass, their longtime family chef. The bride is MSNBC host Alex Wagner. The wedding is at a farm-to-table restaurant in Westchester County, north of New York City. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama foreign policy diminishes U.S. standing in fight against terrorism: Mike Rogers

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

In this photo released by the Armed Forces of the Philippines Public Affairs Office, Philippine Military Chief Gen. Gregorio Catapang, center, reacts after learning about the safe repositioning of Filipino peacekeepers in Golan Heights as they monitor the situation with Philippine Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert Del Rosario, second left, Philippine National Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin, third from left seated, at Camp Aguinaldo military headquarters in suburban Quezon city, Philippines on Saturday, Aug. 30, 2014. Catapang said more than 70 Filipino peacekeepers have escaped from two areas in the Golan Heights that came under attack by Syrian rebels. (AP Photo/Armed Forces of the Philippines Public Affairs Office)

Philippine troops pull ‘greatest escape’ in Golan

By JIM GOMEZ and RYAN LUCAS - Associated Press

An armed group of men, not specified which group of rebels, gather at Syria's Quneitra border crossing between Syria and the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, Friday, Aug. 29, 2014. It was unclear if the men were connected to an armed group that, the United Nations said, detained more than 40 U.N. peacekeepers during fighting in Syria early Thursday. The peacekeepers were detained on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights during a &quot;period of increased fighting between armed elements and the Syrian Arab Armed Forces,&quot; the office of U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in a statement. ( AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Al-Qaeda-linked Syrian rebels attack peacekeepers in Golan Heights

By Diaa Hadid and Oliver Teves - Associated Press