IF YOU LIKE YOUR WAR PLAN YOU CAN KEEP IT

President Obama’s strategy to combat ISIS, faces tough scrutiny from the House Foreign Affairs Committee today as Secretary of State John Kerry tries to sell the plan, which seems to require a daily redefinition from the White House. Committee Chairman Ed Royce, R-Calif., has accused the administration of sending “mixed messages” about the threat posed by the Islamist militant group. Wednesday’s performance of the administration’s semantic circus featured the White House acknowledging that Obama would consider putting U.S. troops in “forward-deployed positions” to advise Iraqi forces in the fight against the Islamic State – even while insisting U.S. troops would not be sent back into a “combat role” in Iraq. The House voted to fund the his request to train and arm Syrian rebels, but with his generals telegraphing the need for more decisive action, political pressure from the right and left and sinking poll numbers, the president’s ability to defend his evolving strategy is very much in doubt.