“Much has been made about the president’s reliance on a teleprompter, and today we saw, in all seriousness, one reason why,” says columnist George Will: “He’s not that good when he’s winging it, and it’s very hard to be good when you’re making up a policy as you go along from press conference to press conference.”
“‘Degrade,’ ‘destroy,’ ‘roll back,’ and ‘shrink.’ When you promise, as he’s done, to do a lot and also promise to do a little, you’re going to succeed one way or another,” Will said. Then again, Will is skeptical about what the U.S. can or cares to do about the threat from the Islamic State: “It’s a basic principle of politics: If you will an end, you have to will the means to that end, and I don’t see that we’re ready to do that yet.”
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