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Republicans Blast Obama For Weak Approach To Iraq-Syria Conflict

In fight against terrorists.

(Photo : Reuters/Larry Downing) U.S. President Barack Obama answers questions in the White House Press Briefing Room ahead of a meeting with his national security council in Washington, August 28, 2014.

Republicans criticized U.S. President Barrack Obama on Sunday faces in maintaining a cautious approach against rebel groups in Iraq and Syria and for not being able to pose leadership in the fight against terrorism.

Representative Mike Rogers (R-Mi) said that the U.S. government remains passive, while terrorist groups in the Middle East continue to grow in numbers and spread threat across the region.

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In an interview with Fox News, Rogers said that while Europe has laid its proposed resolutions to diminish Islamic fire fighters in Iraq and Syria, the U.S. seems "not being that concerned."

California Democrat Senator Dianne Feinstein, who chairs Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, urged the president to start laying out plans and implement them to confront vicious movements of terrorist groups.

A month ago, a band of Islamist separatists in Libya took over the U.S. Embassy and other neighboring residential structures while the rest of the diplomats flee for safety.

But despite the imminent threats not only in Middle Eastern countries, but also on American soil, President Obama clarified that the government has not come up with strategies yet to eradicate some 10,000 members of such groups including the ISIS that are in strict compliance with the Shariah law.

Republican Senator John McCain emphasized that the government needs to have a specific course of action to defeat ISIS as it has clearly violated the rules of engagement in Iraq and Syria, not to mention cost thousands of lives and damages to properties.

The Arizona representative suggested air strikes, acquiring weapons for the Kurdish pershmerga and arming the Free Syrian Army as tactics to end the war in the region.

Representative Tim Cole, an Oklahoma Republican, furthered that the U.S. government is already made aware of the elements of strategizing for an attack based on previous accounts of terrorist encounters. However, he said in an interview with ABC's This Week, it would make a huge difference to "act now" instead of knowing "what to do" in this time of crisis.

Cole said that President Obama and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has allowed the proliferation of these hostiles by not acting upon the issue and continuously pointing fingers at each other.

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