Face in the News: Bipartisan push for Obama to take on ISIS

WASHINGTON (CBS News) - Foreign policy continued to drive the conversation in Washington this week, and we covered it all Sunday on "Face The Nation."

"Face The Nation" host Bob Schieffer interviewed Sen. Marco Rubio, a Florida Republican who sits on the Foreign Relations and Intelligence committees in the Senate. Rubio was sharply critical of President Barack Obama for his handling of the new terror threat, calling it "presidential malpractice."

Obama's handling of the crisis has been "dramatically counterproductive to our foreign policy and ... have created some generational and reputational damage to the United States of great significance," Rubio said. "This continued this week. You have mixed messages coming from the administration. They don't have a strategy."

He also endorsed U.S. air strikes against ISIS in Syria: "If you're serious about defeating ISIL, you have to go after where they're headquartered," he said, using a different acronym for the terrorist organization that has now beheaded two American journalists and captured vast territory in western Iraq and eastern Syria.

Rubio's comments were covered by the Washington Post, Politico, National Review, The Hill, the Washington Examiner, the New York Post, the Orlando Sentinel, the Huffington Post, Newsmax, MSNBC and CNN.

Schieffer also spoke with the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger, who weighed in on Obama's handling of the current foreign policy conundrums in the Middle East and Eastern Europe.

"If you want to kill a snake, cut its head off," Ruppersberger said, suggesting that the Obama administration should pick up the pace on targeted air strikes against ISIS leadership.

His comments were covered by The Wall Street Journal, Politico, The Hill and the Washington Examiner.

Finally, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger also came by to discuss his new book, titled "World Order," and discuss the news of the week with host Bob Schieffer. The 91-year-old former Nixon administration official said the U.S. should have already launched aggressive air strikes against the terror group ISIS.

"When an American is murdered on television, for the purpose of terrorizing Americans, there should be a response that you would not analyze in terms of a normal response to provocation," Kissinger said. "Something has to crystallize out of this violence, and it won't happen without our leadership. We cannot do it ourselves. But we can make clear that certain tactics will be strongly resistant."

Our wide-ranging conversation with Dr. Kissinger was covered by Politico, National Review and The Hill.

President Obama will get his chance to win over these officials - and the American public - on Wednesday, when he is scheduled to address the nation and unveil his plan to take on ISIS.