Lt. Col Bill Cowan, Michael Scheuer Blast Obama for Not Caring About ISIS Threat

COWAN: "Sean, Nero fiddles while Rome burns. I think this president could care less about all the threats we face. He's probably gliding along on a path where he hopes nothing will happen to the United States in the next two years while he's still the president. But the reality is, and we heard some of it today from the secretary of defense, we face a threat unlike any threat we've ever faced in our lives, and this administration seems to be doing nothing about it. Dropping some bombs here and there is nice."

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SCHEUER: “The problem lies not with me but with the president, and there's no way to get rid of him for the next two years. So we're stuck with him. ... Mr. Hagel was wrong to say they've never seen anything like this, as if it was a surprise. This movement is an evolutionary movement. It's gotten consistently stronger since 1988, when al Qaeda was formed. Al Qaeda is now a small part of a much bigger, self-perpetuating thing. And what we're seeing in Iraq, based on your map, is what Mao Zedong called the 'final stage of an insurgency,' which is the beginning of formations of battle-hardened and semi-conventional units, which are taking on the military in Iraq. This is very serious situation, but there's no one in the United States who will say that.”