WHITE HOUSE/Pete SouzaPresident Barack Obama speaks on protecting consumers and families in the digital age, at the Federal Trade Commission in Washington, D.C.
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“We will destroy ISIL and any other organisation that tries to harm us… our military will continue to hunt down terrorist plotters in any country where it is necessary”.
Hours after President Barack Obama addressed the nation about the war on terror, a junior Republican senator from Nebraska issued a pointed video rebuttal, arguing that Washington, D.C., “should tell the truth about the enemy we face”. “I think it’s time for Congress to vote to demonstrate that the American people are united and committed to this fight”, he said, but ruled out sending large-scale troops on the ground. “So this was an act of terrorism, created to kill innocent people”, Obama said.
“But it is clear that the two of them had gone down the dark path of radicalisation, embracing a perverted interpretation of Islam that calls for war against America and the West. They had stockpiled assault weapons, ammunition, and pipe bombs”.
Obama said that while the USA has been fighting terrorism since 9/11, the threat has “evolved into a new phase”. “Nothing President Obama said tonight will assist in either case”, Cruz said.
Well, if we mean the real definition of conservative: non-ideological, stay-the-course, stiff upper lip, don’t be a revolutionary, then President Obama probably deserves that honor – particularly after his speech on the violence in San Bernardino and his plans for ISIS.
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio says people are growing scared because “we have a president who is completely overwhelmed” by the terrorist threat.
He also said Obama offered “nothing new” and that tighter gun control would not have prevented the San Bernardino attack. And he said the president may have made things worse, rather than making things better.
William Schneider, a public policy professor at George Mason University in Virginia, said Obama was attempting to show that his administration’s efforts against ISIL were bearing fruit. Part of a cult of death.
“And that’s why I will urge high-tech and law enforcement leaders to make it harder for terrorists to use technology to escape from justice”, he had said.
Obama called on the American Muslim community to be a partner in the fight against radical Islam. Gun-rights advocates say that violates the rights of people who haven’t been convicted of a crime.
He delivered his statement from the Oval Office, a rare setting for broadcasts and one used by previous presidents to announce military action. “This is a matter of national security”, he argued.
Obama spoke about the role diplomacy played at home and overseas as well, to “counter the vicious ideology [the Islamic State] promotes”, and in ending the Syrian war so the world could “focus on the common goal of destroying [the Islamic State], a group that threatens us all”.
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In his weekend radio and Internet address, Obama said it was “entirely possible that these two attackers were radicalized to commit this act of terror”. Instead of tackling this problem head on, the president continues his pursuit of misguided policies, including his radical climate change agenda.
