Barack Obama’s prime-time address to the nation on Sunday—delivered four days after the most deadly terrorist attack on U.S. soil since 9/11—was intended to reassure an anxious nation that America was nevertheless on course to defeat the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). Instead, the president’s predictably languid, misleading, and often banal remarks have reinforced widespread disapproval of his entire approach to combatting Islamic terrorism.
Let’s consider just a few of Mr. Obama’s claims from his speech following the assault in San Bernardino, California that killed fourteen people and injured twenty-one.
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