Rudy Giuliani: Bush took 9/11 seriously; Obama ‘sitting with a dictator’ at baseball game

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani slammed President Obama for watching a baseball game in Havana Tuesday with Cuban President Raul Castro soon after coordinated terrorist attacks in Belgium killed more than 30 people.

Appearing on Fox News Tuesday, Mr. Giuliani said it’s “outrageous” that Mr. Obama “is not in the situation room right now, planning to destroy ISIS,” the terror group that took responsibility for two blasts at Zaventem airport and Maelbeek metro station, killing 34 people and injuring hundreds in Brussels.

“This is an attack on one of our allies. We belong to NATO,” the former GOP presidential candidate said. “An attack on a NATO ally, in case the president ever read the treaty, is an attack on the United States of America. He has an obligation to defend that country.”

“The man has no conception of the NATO treaty and what it entails,” he added. “And what’s he doing? He’s sitting with a dictator. … He’s sitting with a dictator, watching a baseball game, while innocent people are being killed in a war.”

Mr. Giuliani continued, “So far, his strategy hasn’t been working, right? Bush took 9/11 really seriously. He hit them back like hell, right? And we didn’t get a terror incident from then on. [Mr. Obama] has been in office now for eight years and we’ve had four, five, six, seven? I mean, obviously he is not scaring them.

“But if the president of the United States, who is the leader of the free world, or used to be the leader of the free world, took charge, we would have a plan,” he said. “The plan should be, and I heard General [Jack] Keane earlier, no plan. They should be in the situation room right now, and here is what the plan should be. What do we have to do to destroy ISIS? No time limit. None of this ridiculously insane — I think Biden invented time limits, time limits on wars. Imagine if we fought the Civil War with a time limit. We would have quit after three years, and we’d be a divided country.”