Well sort of. But he did say this which is a copy of what Tony Abbott has been saying:

The president laid out his plan Wednesday evening in a prime-time televised speech to the nation from the White House, saying that after months of preparations he is “poised to go on the offence” against ISIS. He framed it as not a war but a counter-terrorism action even as he admitted that “we have not yet detected specific plotting against our homeland.” He said, however, that the thousands of “trained and battle-hardened” Islamic foreign fighters, some of whom come from the U.S., “could try to return to their home countries and carry out deadly attacks.”

Who was it who said it was better to fight them over there before we had to fight them here?

No doubt Australia would be part of the Coalition of the Willing, if only Obama was himself willing.

Mr Abbott, who spoke with Mr Obama on Tuesday, said Australia had received no specific request for further military assistance beyond air and weapons drops by RAAF personnel.

“A specific request for military assistance in the form of air capability and military advisers could come, but it hasn’t yet come,” he told reporters in Launceston on Thursday.

All in good time, no doubt, all in good time.