The Monday Poll: Weighing the ISIS crisis

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel (left) and Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, appeared before the Senate Armed Services Committee to discuss President Barack Obama’s strategy to combat Islamic State extremists in Iraq and Syria. J. Scott Applewhite The Associated Press

The ISIS crisis has become a front-burner foreign policy obsession. President Barack Obama last week won initial backing from Congress for his plan to train and arm rebel forces that are fighting the Islamic State in Syria.

But debates continued to rage — even as the House and Senate closed up shop for the six-week election season — as to whether U.S. actions in the region constituted another war and whether the administration was doing too much or too little to counter the threats of the militant extremists who have gathered round the black Islamic State flag.

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This story was originally published September 21, 2014 at 10:00 AM with the headline "The Monday Poll: Weighing the ISIS crisis."

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