Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) said on Monday on CNN’s “New Day” that even though Snowden left Hong Kong, China was involved and both countries ignored U.S. extradition requests. He called upon the Obama administration to put more pressure on China. “This is really up to the president to be more aggressive and to know how to play his cards better than I think he has up ‘til now,” King said. “Again, I hate to be in the middle of a crisis second guessing the president, but where is he? Where is the president? Why is he not speaking to the American people? Why is he not more forceful in dealing with foreign leaders?” Peter King: Obama acting like ‘a community organizer’

Rep. Peter King, the former chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, upbraided President Barack Obama on Sunday for his handling of the Syrian crisis.

“I just wish the president had laid this out better. I wish he’d quit backing away from his own red line.. And I wish he was more of a commander in chief than a community organizer,” the New York Republican said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

King said that he was in favor of strikes on Syria “in spite of the president’s conduct.”

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Obama’s handling of the crisis, King said, was not befitting a leader.

“Here’s a person who is vacillating,” the congressman said. “I can’t imagine Harry Truman or John Kennedy or Ronald Reagan or Dwight Eisenhower ever putting the nation in a position like this on a military policy.”

“He’s commander in chief. For one year, he said this red line was there. Then the red line was crossed, and he sends [Secretary of State John] Kerry and [Defense Secretary Chuck] Hagel out," King said. "We’re all set to basically have an attack. We’re told that Congress is not needed. At the 11th hour he brings in Congress. And then he says it’s not his red line.”