President Barack Obama is clueless on plans for fighting ISIS, a majority of Americans believe, according to a new CBS News Poll taken after the Paris terrorist attacks and released on Monday.
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The president also decried news headlines that sought to label the recently-deceased ringleader of the Paris attacks, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, as a “mastermind”.
The United States president – who is set to visit Paris at the end of the month for a major climate conference – said that world leaders would be sending an important message by not letting the devastating terror attack just over a week ago prevent them from attending.
“Obama said, “They’re a bunch of killers with good social media”.
The poll came a day after Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev charged per Interfax that the Islamic State gained strength “possibly partly due to irresponsible US politics” that made it a priority of ousting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad rather and eliminating terrorism, said Bloomberg Business. They are “dangerous”, he said, but “our way of life is stronger”.
“Combatting ISIS is a realistic goal and we will pursue it”, Obama told media on the sidelines of the ongoing ASEAN Summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. We have more to offer.
US President Barrack Obama has a simple answer to the question of how to fight ISIS as the latter continues to sow terror to the world. “The most powerful tool we have to fight ISIL is to say that we’re not afraid”.
The man behind the attacks, Obama said at another point, is “not a mastermind”. “He found a few other vicious people, got [his] hands on some fairly conventional weapons, and sadly, it turns out if you’re willing to die, you can kill a lot of people”.
Obama said he understands why Americans are feeling afraid, but “I want to be very clear about this: I am not afraid that ISIL will beat us due to their operations”. America is not against them because they believe in something else. They’re certainly not rushing to do so under Obama.
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Obama was hammered last week for a policy aimed at limiting civilian causalities, which is making it harder for us military pilots to strike at ISIS targets. While Obama sneers at critics of his plan to process Syrian refugees normally as being fearful of widows and orphans, only 15% think revamping security in this process is not necessary.
