U.S. President Barack Obama departs after delivering a statement from Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, during his vacation August 20, 2014. Obama on Wednesday condemned the Islamic State militants who beheaded an American journalist as "a cance
U.S. President Barack Obama departs after delivering a statement from Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, during his vacation August 20, 2014. Obama on Wednesday condemned the Islamic State militants who beheaded an American journalist as "a cancer" and said "their ideology is bankrupt." "The whole world is appalled by the brutal murder of James Foley," Obama said, speaking a day after the militants released a video of Foley being beheaded. Obama said he called Foley's family to express his condolences. Reuters/Kevin Lamarque

The U.S. Senate election scheduled for next month, has made it interesting as the race moved away from domestic issues to international policy issues. Most prominent is the rise of Islamic State (ISIS) and Obama regime's inaction as a contributory factor in its growth. The Republicans are using ISIS for attacking Democrats by charging that Obama's alleged inaction compromised national security.

North Carolina

Here Republican Party gave a ticket to Thom Tillis hoping to unseat the incumbent North Carolina Sen. Kay Hagan. But at the moment polls show he is trailing. But Tillis is keeping an agile campaign attacking Hagan's Senate record by questioning her national security credentials in the light of the Islamic State threat, reported Fox news.

Tillis, state House speaker, is raising the pitch in the final weeks. Many party luminaries including Florida Gov. Jeb Bush are coming for the campaign cameos. He is hissing at the Democratic rival on the foreign policy front telling voters that the world's fastest-growing terror group ISIS went ignored by lawmakers in Washington.

Lax on ISIS

On Monday, Tillis' camp released a 30-second Ad attacking Hagan for ignoring Senate Armed Service Committee hearings, even as the Islamic State threat was mounting. The campaign charged Hagan for missing too many hearings and suggested that indicated she and President Obama were sitting back at a critical time. The Ad narrator ominously says. as ISIS grew, Obama kept waiting and Kay Hagan stayed quiet. "The price of that failure is danger".

National Anxiety

Hagan's camp, though quiet on the topic hit back, saying Tillis' Ad was an attempt to deflect attention from his own poor record. But the approach of Tillis is a sample of the growing national anxiety about the rise of terror groups and the scare it has on people, making it an issue bigger than health care or the economy.

During a recent public meeting, Tillis asserted that Hagan and Obama are to blame for the growing emergency related to extremists like ISIS and he called for a new approach. Tillis told FoxNews that anything short of a strategy that leads to the complete elimination of ISIS is unacceptable. Tillis repeated his charge that Hagan was siding with Obama and helping ISIS by to rise with inaction and appeasement. But the Republican candidate did not reveal his own position if he was in Hagan's position. He said his decision would be based on what military officials told him. Right now, as a "private citizen" he cannot comment on what he is going to do.

Sadie Weiner, campaign director of Hagan blasted Tillis for his dithering and said he was spinelessly fence-sitting on national security threats. In this all out fight, Republicans see the six Senate seats crucial to their taking control of the Senate next year.