Colorado Senator Mark Udall (D) may have just done himself a disservice in his race to keep his seat in the Senate by defending President Obama’s cautious approach to the ISIS terrorist threat coming from Iraq and Syria.
During the first debate against his Republican challenger for the Senate seat Cory Gardner, Udall insisted that “ISIL does not present an imminent threat to this nation.”
Furthermore, he had the gall to assert that the two American journalists beheaded by ISIS terrorists in recent weeks would also approve of Obama’s hesitancy to eradicate the ISIS militants swiftly and immediately.
“I can tell you, Steve Sotloff and James Foley would tell us, don’t be impulsive,” alleged Udall. “Horrible and barbarous as those executions were, don’t be impulsive, come up with a plan to knock ISIL back.”
Both Udall and Gardner spoke to 9News in Colorado last week after President Obama admitted he did not have a strategy to deal with ISIS in Syria.
“I am strongly opposed to putting boots on the ground,” Udall explained. “If we’re going to expand our involvement there, the president needs to come to Congress and make the case.”
Gardner waxed much more critical of the president.
“I think that when the president of the United States goes before the American people and says, ‘let’s not put the cart before the horse, we need a strategy,’ I think you have to take the president at his word and that is very unfortunate,” said Gardner. “Instead of signaling to them that we don’t know what to do with them, the signal that they ought to have is the United States will not stand for this.”
Currently, Udall holds a slim lead over Gardner of between three and six points.
H/T National Review
