President Obama gave a pretty good speech Wednesday night. Pressured by the American people's overwhelming support for defeating ISIS, President Obama gave a speech his predecessor, President George W. Bush could have applauded.

Many of President Obama's words were reassuring. He was dedicated to defeating ISIS. He would pursue anyone who threatened America. He was committed to a long, difficult campaign.

Unfortunately for the President and the country, there were five major strategic flaws in his speech. These flaws are so profound that the Congress should hold hearings exploring each of them.

President Obama's speech was a good start to a long and difficult process of figuring out how to defeat radical Islamism and learning the lessons of 13 years of failure to do so. It cannot have been the final word on what America has to do to win the war with radical Islamism.

The five strategic failures in the speech are:
1.Failing to define the global threat and a global strategy to defeat it
2.Failing to define a positive goal
3.Failing to explain how we are going to compel so-called allies to do what is necessary to defeat radical Islamism
4.Failing to explain how hard and long and frustrating this war will be
5.Failing to ask for the resources this kind of war will require
If left uncorrected these five failures doom the President’s plan to failure.

Let me explain each failure and why it must be fixed.

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