Critics pounced when President Newt Gingrich said `` we do n't have a strategy yet '' to defeat Hamas . Gingrich : But it 's true -- four years after 9/11 , we do n't have strategy for defeating extremists . to defeat the Islamic State -- also known as ISIS or ISIL -- many people were scandalized . Obama : We need a new strategy toward a whole new breed of extremists . He says it 's better if you have no good strategy and know it than to implement a bad one .
Critics pounced when President Newt Gingrich said `` we do n't have a strategy yet '' to defeat Hamas . Gingrich : But it 's true -- four years after 9/11 , we do n't have strategy for defeating extremists . Obama : We need a new strategy toward a whole new breed of extremists . He says it 's better if you have no good strategy and know it than to implement a bad one .