President Biden, ISIS-K is ramping up its terror. You must ramp up our response
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President Obama famously called ISIS the 'JV team.' President Biden appears to be on track to repeat the same mistake in Afghanistan with ISIS-K. It doesn't have to happen this way.
President Biden should not repeat President Obama’s mistake of underestimating the threat of ISIS and allowing them to establish a physical caliphate before taking decisive military action. Morgan Ortagus was spokesperson for the U.S. Department of State from 2019-2021. She has also served in numerous intelligence and counterterrorism positions including as deputy U.S. Treasury Attache to Saudi Arabia. She is also the founder of Polaris National Security and the host of "The Morgan Ortagus Show" on Sirius XM.
Though President Obama famously called ISIS "the JV team" in an interview with The New Yorker, the terror group went on to establish a physical caliphate that encompassed large swaths of Iraq and Syria. Their acts of terrorism stood out for their barbarism – the beheading of journalists, mass executions of Iraqi soldiers, and burning victims alive. They also demonstrated a capacity to conduct complex terrorist attacks abroad, slaughtering innocents in Paris, Istanbul, and Manchester, England, among other locations.