Since IS militants killed 130 in France nine days ago, Obama’s strategy has come under repeated questioning.
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“Even the president’s own director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation indicated we don’t have good intelligence on the Syrian refugees”.
Answering a question about funding to ISIS in Syria, he said that Saudi Arabia is coordinating with United States to trace their financial sources and soon we will block all of them.
“I think it is absolutely vital for every country, every leader, to send a signal that the viciousness of a handful of killers does not stop the world from doing vital business”, Obama continued.
On Monday the White House fought back against Congress and more than two dozen governors, including Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, who have tried to ban Syrian refugees from entering their states. “We believe that an essential component of that effort is ensuring that no refugee related to the Syrian crisis is admitted to the United States unless the USA government can guarantee, with 100 percent assurance, that they are not members, supporters or sympathizers of the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), also known as Daesh or ISIL”. Obama said it “would be helpful” if Russian Federation directed its focus on tackling Islamic State and he hoped Moscow would agree to a leadership transition in Syria that meant its president stepping down.
The USA and its allies will press ahead with their battle against Islamic State in Syria and Iraq with or without Russia’s cooperation, he said. But those who throw around such words as “weak” and “feckless” should tell us if they support the logical alternative: Sending in tens of thousands of USA troops. French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said the West would “annihilate Islamic State worldwide”.
Titled “Paris Before Rome”, the video shows an Islamic State fighter threatening to “pound” French monuments and vowing to strike at the White House. Hollande then goes to Russian Federation for similar talks with Putin. The civil war will continue as long as Assad is in power, he said.
In fact, a Fox News poll released Sunday found that 67 percent of those surveyed opposes the president’s plan to take in at least 10,000 more Syrian refugees through next year. He invoked the memory of Nohemi Gonzalez, the 23-year-old Californian killed in Paris, as well as another American killed in the more recent attack in Mali – saying they reminded him “of my daughters, or my mother”. The president has since softened his tone. It is this policy that has produced the chaos in Syria, including the rise of ISIS and al-Qaida in the country. I think it is a sign of Washington’s moral and intellectual bankruptcy that US citizens are being forced to pay for those fleeing Washington’s foreign policy.
“The idea that we’re going to repel an entire group of people on the basis of their religion?”
“We will not give in to fear, or start turning on each other, or treat a few people differently because of religion, race or background”.
Although the president seems to be bumping heads with conservatives, his rhetoric in Malaysia sounds similar to President George W. Bush after the 9-11 attacks.
A peace plan agreed to last weekend by 17 nations meeting in Vienna says nothing about Assad’s future, but states that “free and fair elections would be held pursuant to the new constitution within 18 months”.
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Obama was responding to a report in The NY Times that the Pentagon’s inspector general has expanded its probe of intelligence reports from Central Command, or CENTCOM, and that congressional committees were seeking answers about whether that intelligence had been shaded to make it appear more progress is being made. President Obama pointed out that America had survived mass civilian causalities before, but NY Times Square was still packed with tourists.
