NBC Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel strongly criticized President Obama’s address on ISIS during MSNBC’s special coverage of the speech on Wednesday night.
Engel said that Obama’s invocation of Yemen and Somalia was “wildly off base, frankly. I think, it’s an oversimplification of the problem.” And that Yemen and Somalia are “not at all the situation we’re seeing in Iraq and Syria. Here we have a large group, tens of thousands of fighters. They control an area the size of Maryland. They control an area that has 8 million people living inside of it. It’s much more akin to regime change than it is to waiting back, picking targets with allied forces. They are not comparable at all.”
Engel later continued his criticism of the president’s speech on Twitter
President keeps talking about partners and a broad coalition. I see broad verbal support, but few battle partners on the ground
— Richard Engel (@RichardEngel) September 11, 2014
Was this really the strategy for syria thats been three years in the making?
— Richard Engel (@RichardEngel) September 11, 2014
The US can drone and weaken isis, but a decade has shown, the US is not qualified to mediate sunni shiite divide.
— Richard Engel (@RichardEngel) September 11, 2014
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