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OBAMA JETS OUT OF THE U.S. WITHOUT SAYING A SINGLE WORD ABOUT SOTLOFF QUOTE--Barack Obama left for a three-day European swing Tuesday afternoon without saying a single word in response to a terrorist video showing the beheading of Steven Sotloff, the second American journalist to die that way on camera. The presidents departure came amid equally deafening swirls of helicopter rotors and tough questions about whether and when the U.S. will strike back in a meaningful and public way against ISIS, the self-proclaimed Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham. News of Sotloffs execution broke online at 1:05 p.m., shortly after White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest began his daily briefing with reporters; he said four minutes later that he hadnt heard the news. By 3:40, Obama was lifting off from the South Lawn of the White House on his way to a waiting Air Force One, which was wheels up by 4:00. Just two weeks ago, the president was widely criticized for being pictured fist-bumping on the golf course minutes after solemnly addressing the nation about an ISIS video showing photojournalist James Foleys death. As Obamas chopper left the White House on Tuesday, CNN posted video of an interview with Brett McGurk, the Deputy U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Iraq and Iran, who said Americans should stay tuned for a reaction from the Obama administration. The U.S. is developing a broad regional coalition, a broad international coalition, working to get a new Iraqi government stood up, working to get our plans in place, McGurk said. So stay tuned. You cannot just go in militarily and start dropping bombs and hope that its going to work out, he said. You have to have a very sophisticated approach to this. We are building now a broader campaign plan that we’ll develop over the days and weeks ahead, he told CNN. The remark sounded like an affirmative echo of what Obama himself said five days ago, admitting that he hadnt decided whether to expand his anti-ISIS airstrikes beyond the borders of Iraq and into Syria . We don’t have a strategy yet, he said then. YES, STAY TUNED AND LISTEN CAREFULLY TO THE ORCHESTRATED LIES FROM THIS MANS LIPS. THIS MAKES ME ASHAMED TO BE AN AMERICAN. BUT I AM NOT ASHAMED OF THE GOSPEL OR THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. I WILL PROCLAIM IT UNTIL I AM RAPTURED, AND FACE TO FACE WITH OUR LORD. GOD HAS ALL THESE EVENTS IN HIS CONTROL. GOD KNOWS THE END FROM THE BEGINNING, AND HAS HIS MOST PREFECT PLAN IN OPERATION. REMEMBERING THIS KEEPS ME STEADY IN THESE VERY TRYING AND PERILOUS TIMES.