THE SEAN HANNITY SHOW

Obama: No Change In ISIS Policy After Paris 'Setback' As critics begin taking President Obama to task over what many consider to be a weak policy vis-à-vis ISIS, the president is calling the attack that took the lives of at least 132 people "a setback." "The terrible events in Paris were obviously a terrible and sickening setback," the president said at the G20 summit. "Even as we grieve with our French friends, however, we can't lose sight that there has been progress being made." Obama is also indicating that there will be little alteration of policy course upon which the U.S. military is already set. "[T]here will be an intensification of the strategy that we've put forward," the president said to the media while in Turkey. "But, the strategy that we are putting forward is the strategy that ultimately is going to work. But as I said from the start, it's going to take time." On Saturday's special edition of Hannity, retired Marine Lt. Colonel Bill Cowen called the president's current strategy and his insistence that ISIS has been "contained", "delusional." "For the president to say that we're containing ISIS completely ignores that ISIS is now in the Sanai, it's in Libya, it's in Yemen, it's in Afghanistan, it's in Asia, it's around the world," Cowan said. "[Democrats] trying to pretend away something they can't pretend away." Retired Marine Colonel: Democrats 'Totally Delusional' On ISIS Despite the recent bombing of a Russian just in the Sanai and twin suicide bombings that claimed 40 lives in Lebanon, President Obama was declaring on last week's Good Morning America that the terror group ISIS had been "contained." The president's controversial statement was not an isolated case of liberals downplaying and underestimating the threat posed by ISIS. In 2014, for example, the White House was calling ISIS "the jayvee team." More recently, Bernie Sanders argued at Saturday's Democratic primary debate that climate change posed a greater threat to Americans than ISIS, while Hillary Clinton refused to acknowledge that America was at war with radical Islam. WATCH: Lt. Col. Bill Cowan, General Tony Tata, and Col. David Hunt tear into the Democratic response to ISIS "They're totally delusional, every one of them," retired Marine Lt. Colonel Bill Cowen said on Saturday's Hannity. "For the president to say that we're containing ISIS completely ignores that ISIS is now in the Sanai, it's in Libya, it's in Yemen, it's in Afghanistan, it's in Asia, it's around the world. They're trying to pretend away something they can't pretend away. ISIS is out there and it wants to do to us, exactly what it did to the French." "If you look at the some of the ground that ISIS gained that was Ramadi, that was Fallujah, that was Mosul, that was Tikrit. These were cities that Americans fought, bled, and died over and lost limbs over," Sean added. "How can the president make the argument that 'they are contained'?" "That doesn't even make sense to me," General Tony Tata responded, "the term contained has no value in military parlance. Destroy, defeat, that's what the president aught to be talking about."