His position changed only after the Islamic State threatened to overrun Iraq’s Kurdish regional capital, Erbil – home to US military, intelligence, diplomatic, and business facilities. Add to that the beheadings of two American journalists, and suddenly Obama’s team was using Bush’s war rhetoric, declaring that the US is at war with the Islamic State “in the same way that we are at war with Al Qaeda and its affiliates all around the globe.”
比如，奥巴马一开始将伊斯兰国归为“好”的一类，因为它破坏了叙利亚总统巴沙尔·阿达的的统治和伊朗在叙利亚和伊拉克的利益。他的立场直到伊斯兰国威胁要颠覆伊拉克库尔德地区首付埃尔比勒（Erbil，美国军事、情报、外交和商业设施所在地）才有所改变。加之两名美国记者突然遭遇斩首，因此奥巴马团队突然开始采用布什的战争言辞，宣布美国将“以与对待基地组织及其全球同伙同样的方式”和伊斯兰国开战。