Henry Kissinger: U.S. Should Have Already Bombed ISIS ‘Hard’

Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger told Face the Nation’s Bob Schieffer that the U.S. should have already taken action against ISIS, the band of Sunni militants marauding across Syria and northern Iraq.

“You’re talking about a massive response,” Scheiffer asked. “Not hitting one target but as many as possible?”

“When an American is murdered on television, for the purpose of terrorizing Americans, there should be a response that you would not analyze in terms of a normal response to provocation,” Kissinger said. “Something has to crystallize out of this violence, and it won’t happen without our leadership. We cannot do it ourselves. But we can make clear that certain tactics will be strongly resistant.”

Watch the clip below, via CBS News:

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