WASHINGTON — Republicans yesterday bashed President Obama in the wake of his counterterrorism speech — calling him everything from “tone-deaf” to “breathtakingly naive.”
In his address last week, Obama called for a narrower use of drone strikes and a pulling back on the war on terror.
“At the end of the day, this is the most tone-deaf president I could ever imagine, making such a speech at a time when our homeland is trying to be attacked literally every day,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said on “Fox News Sunday.”
Obama called for drones only against targets that pose a “continuing imminent threat.”
“It’s just stunningly, breathtakingly naive,” former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “We will never be in peace in the pre-1941 sense that we are never threatened.”
Rep. Peter King (R-LI) added that the current drone policy does not need to be changed.
Obama “was coming from this moral tone, which I think was misplaced,” King said on ABC’s “This Week.”