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In an interview with former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney on Monday’s NBC Today, co-host Savannah Guthrie was incredulous of his criticism of President Obama’s strategy against ISIS: “You wrote in The Washington Post that the President should wage war to defeat ISIS, quote, ‘not merely to harass it.’ That is pretty tough language. Let me be direct with you, are you saying the President is dabbling at war with ISIS?”
Romney doubled down: “Well, it's clear that he's pulled his punches there. He laid out a tactic now a couple years ago. It's very obvious that his tactics there have not worked. He said that ISIS had been contained. It is obviously not been contained.”