Obama too soft in fight against ISIS: Tony Abbott, by Cameron Stewart.

Tony Abbott was openly frustrated with Barack Obama’s leadership at the start of the war against Islamic State, believing that restrictive rules of engagement and a risk-averse approach in Washington were cruelling the fight against the terrorist group

According to senior members of the government, the former prime minister thought the US President was “too cautious and too cerebral’’ in formulating Washington’s response to Islamic State, which in mid-2014 burst out of Syria and annexed large tracts of northern Iraq.