“But across our government at every level, federal, state and local, military and civilian, we are doing everything in our power to stop these kinds of attacks”.
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In the aftermath of the Orlando terrorist attack, President Obama says the USA government is “doing everything in our power to stop these kinds of attacks”.
Obama also scolded Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump for his proposal to call a temporary moratorium on Muslims entering the country. Instead, the president has suggested the root causes behind a “disturbed” man’s actions are hard to determine and may be less important than a sort of “soul searching” about what to do about it. “We have to make it harder for people who want to kill Americans to get their hands on weapons of war that let them kill dozens of innocents”.
Early Sunday, June 12, 2016, an American-born, Omar Mateen, gunned down 49 people and injured 53 others at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, which has become the deadliest mass shooting in the United States and the nation’s worst terror attack since 9/11.
But the president has seemed to embrace his end-of-term role.
“Well, first of all, the President has had the opportunity to speak with Buddy Dyer, who is the mayor of Orlando”, Earnest said at the daily briefing.
President Obama met with his national security advisors on Tuesday and said the country is making significant progress in the battle against ISIS. Obama asked. “The answer is, none of the above”. Although Mateen wasn’t on any watch list at the time, Obama blasted as “crazy” a system in which law enforcement officials weren’t alerted when he purchased the assault rifle and handgun used in the attack.
Obama said the United States was taking the fight to Islamic State, killing more than 120 of the group’s leaders.
“If we ever abandon those values, we would not only make it a lot easier to radicalize people here and around the world, but we would have betrayed the very things we are trying to protect”. Islamic State has lost almost half of the territory it once held in Iraq and has been cut off from the worldwide financial system.
“Our mission is to destroy ISIL”, Obama said today after a meeting with his National Security Council at the Treasury Department.
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The juxtaposition has illustrated that “going after terrorists over there”, as Obama put it previous year, has not seemed to lessen the risk of terrorism at home.
