Jeb Bush called the president “weak” and his approach “business as usual”. ISIS has shown itself to be a real threat in spite of Obama’s determination to make us think otherwise, and you can expect some real tension in his final year in office between what the public understands is necessary and the president’s steadfast refusal to do it.
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The reality is these three shootings happened because Mr. Obama has refused to identify radical Islamist extremism as an enemy to the United States, and he has, therefore, taken no measures to fight it at home while making little effort to fight radicalized groups overseas. Amnesty also highlights that during and after the 2003 US-led invasion, Iraq was again flooded with weapon imports, many of them never adequately secured, and therefore unaccounted for.
These local forces will receive assistance in the form of weapons, backup via coalition airstrikes and training from USA special operations forces. However, he says since the USA has seen the scope of ISIS’ power and is continuing to fight the terrorist group, there should be a democratic conversation about how to do it, so he’s been calling for Congress to vote on whether or not to declare war against the so-called Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
“We have the military capacity to impose a no-fly zone”.
Pentagon spokesman Maj. Roger Cabiness told the CNN that the United States closely monitors equipment it provides to its partners in order “to prevent and detect illegal transfers to third parties, in order to protect American technology, and, where relevant, to ensure partner compliance with requirements placed on all recipients of USA defense articles”.
That’s why, as a nation, we must not give in to the urge to give away our basic liberties for momentary security. Sanders said an global coalition is needed.
The president has pushed to train and equip Iraqi and Syrian rebel forces, and he has sent military trainers to Iraq and US special operations to Syria. ISIS would continue to recruit members, and the US would have to call on its allies to join together for…what? The Republican majorities in the House and Senate didn’t act on the president’s request or offer proposals of their own. He promised in an earlier radio interview to “carpet-bomb them into oblivion”.
The Obama administration is already taking steps on both fronts. Furthering the debate is last month’s Paris attacks, which left 130 dead. The group also sequestered weapons from the battlefield, from illicit trade and from defections of fighters in Iraq and Syria.
He said: “Poor regulation and lack of oversight of the vast arms flows into Iraq going back decades have given IS and other armed groups a bonanza of unprecedented access to firepower”. The United States should also deploy more close air support platforms, including Apache attack helicopters, they added. His administration is focused on enacting gun laws that won’t stop terrorists while it continues to push policies that will let more of them into the country.
“The attitude has to be different”, retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson told ABC’s “Good Morning America” on Monday.
That process is quite a bit longer than, for example, the mere minutes it takes for a background check that will allow you to buy a gun (and abuse of gun ownership has proven to be the far greater security issue, having taken hundreds of thousands of American lives over the same period). Obama’s Republican critics panned the speech as offering nothing new. He seemed disappointed. “Is that all there is?” he tweeted.
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Obama’s strategy has many elements that any future president, Republican or Democrat, would adopt.
