“Nobody likes ISIS, and yet they keep prevailing because of a lack of political will to commit to ground forces by the major powers”, Shannon said.
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Just hours after Obama spoke, Paris police conducted a raid on an apartment, looking for the mastermind of Friday’s attacks. Suggesting that there are problems that require a broader approach, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution Tamara Cofman Wittes was quoted by Euronews as stating, “We need to act militarily to try and push back the immediate threat that is faced by many in the region and in the west from ISIS”. But when people hear that a threat has been contained, they can be forgiven for thinking that rules out mass killings in Paris. ISIS is at war with us and the world.
“This brutal savagery is a reminder of what is at stake in this election”.
The world waits for America to lead.
It is time we demand “shock and awe” from any potential candidate who runs for President.
“This is a clash of civilizations”.
First of all, we have made progress in our fight against ISIS.
One of the proudest traditions of the United States has been to welcome the stranger. “I don’t think they can plausibly say yes”, Cohen told the Washington Post.
PRESIDENT Obama couldn’t have been looking forward to his press conference on Monday in Turkey.
Thursday a hopeful President Barack Obama told an ABC News interviewer that U.S.-led airstrikes have “contained the momentum that (Islamic State) had gained” in the Mideast. They’re running away from their own government. After all, memories are still fresh of the disastrous unraveling of the invasion of Iraq that helped Obama get elected in the first place.
At the same time, France is stepping up its bombing campaign inside Syria and is calling on other states to increase their contributions to the coalition, though it has not invoked NATO’s mutual defense pact, known as Article 5.
At a minimum, we need to track down and deport those from the Middle East who are in the USA on expired visas. And it’s far from clear he is committed to doing much more even in the aftermath of the Paris attack. So there are calls for a troop surge in Syria, expanded bombing campaigns and tough new homeland security measures that may not actually be workable or fully thought out. I also understand that whatever course a president takes, there will be victims who have to pay the price.
The real estate mogul also said he would “strongly consider” closing mosques on American soil.
And that’s the bedeviling thing about events – the enemy gets to create them. That, too, is fraught with risk.
The takeaway for voters is that many of their candidates for president aren’t demonstrating readiness for the kinds of decisions that confront Obama now: Should the US devote more military resources or merely sound more menacing but not change strategy? Six of the Paris terrorists reportedly spent time in Syria, and at least one of them came into Europe through the refugee program.
In the meantime, our oldest ally, France, a country without which the United States would not exist as a nation, needs to know that we will offer our considerable might toward any effort used to ensure that what happened to them last Friday will not happen again.
Mr. Obama has said that he is open to thoughtful ideas, but has considered ground troops and, with input from his military commanders, rejected the idea.
As a result, “it’s going to become more and more hard to differentiate between a pickup truck that is carrying crude oil and a pickup truck that just belongs to a baker or a farmer”. It is understandable that Americans would be wary of conflict after ten years of seemingly unending war in the Middle East.
At the end of the 84th legislative session in May 2015, Texas lawmakers approved more than $88 million in funding for the state’s Refugee Assistance Program during the 2016-2017 biennium, more than $18 million more than was allocated for the previous biennium in 2013. “We wanted a no-fly zone”.
“You can not export democracy”, she said.
It was a performance that emphasized the challenges she faces in running for a third consecutive Democratic term in the White House. ISIS recruiters would like nothing more than for Canadian Muslims to feel estranged from the larger community.
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The fact that some young Ghanaians were alleged to have joined this group a few months ago, even makes it more paramount for us as Ghanaians.
