NBC’s Richard Engel Rips Obama’s ISIS Strategy; ‘Not a Problem That Can Be Droned Away’

Curtis Houck | February 19, 2015
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While his fellow network news colleagues all but ignored any criticism of President Obama’s speech on Wednesday afternoon and his avoidance of using the term Islamic extremism, NBC News chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel ripped the current U.S. strategy for defeating ISIS during NBC Nightly News

“ISIS is spreading like a virus and months of U.S.-led air strikes don't seem to be containing it,” declared Engel at the onset of his report.

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