U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) said the president will go after ISIS the same way he went after al-Qaida.
Speaking to reporters in San Francisco on Friday, Boxer said the rise of ISIS can be laid at the feet of the Bush administration's invasion of Iraq, which inflamed long-simmering divisions in that country. Boxer said she is confident the U.S. will defeat ISIS without putting any combat troops on the ground.
"We're going to take the fight to them and we're going to do it," Boxer said. "As far as I know and support, we're going to do it without American combat boots on the ground."
The senator said the Iraqi military and U.S.-backed Syrian fighters can handle the ground combat. But it is those troops ISIS has recently been defeating.
When asked if foreign troops and U.S. air strikes will be enough to defeat ISIS, Boxer -- who also sits on the state foreign relations committee -- said she is confident.
"Yes, we're hearing from the president every day that we have a strategy," she said.
President Barack Obama, however, recently said he doesn't have a strategy for Syria, but is working on it.
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"It's going to be a good strategy, and it's going to be like the strategy we have in Iraq," Boxer said. "Which is to have other boots on the ground from people who know the area who are very familiar with it."
