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Instead, they see nightly stories in the mainstream press about Russian interference and other issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe days of feckless leadership are over \u2026 We have an administration that appreciates the danger posed by the Islamic State, and is actually playing to win.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The hearing\u2019s panel of witnesses included Sebastian Gorka, former deputy assistant to Trump on national security, who praised his former boss and \u2014 prompted by lawmakers \u2014 attacked Obama for \u201cnot having the will to win\u201d during his presidency. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe Trump administration has taken what the Obama White House called a generational threat and made it strategically irrelevant in the space of just a few months,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Democrats disputed that. They noted that the lengthy military campaign against ISIS began in October 2016, before Trump\u2019s election. And they also credited Obama with forcing regional military leaders to accept more responsibility in the counteroffensive, after they allowed rise of the militant group in the years after the Iraq war. <span class=\"js-paste-start-V43TANTBB95230KPT25975NWA4\">The overall campaign against the ISIS threat, formally known as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inherentresolve.mil\/About-Us\/\">Operation Inherent Resolve<\/a>, began in October 2014. <span class=\"js-paste-end-V43TANTBB95230KPT25975NWA4\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In response, Republicans revived campaign rhetoric from last year\u2019s presidential contest blaming Obama for the formation of ISIS and the \u201cabandonment\u201d of the region after the Iraq war. 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