Marco Rubio: Obama's war on terror is failing

Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) is the latest Congressman to join in the criticism against President Obama's defense strategy.

In an op-ed he penned for Fox News, the likely GOP 2016 presidential candidate alleges that "the U.S. war against Islamic extremism has been put on hold by President Obama and his national security team."

Obama, Rubio points out, did not even make mention of al Qaeda during his State of the Union address. The recent terror attacks in Paris, he adds, "gave us a glimpse of what the future of terrorism looks like, and what the civilized world will have to defend against."

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