Mr Obama, who also claimed Muslims needed to do more to ensure young people were “not infected” with the beliefs of extremists, spoke after several political leaders had suggested reducing the number of refugees from Syria.
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PERHAPS, if heaven forbid the United States were to be attacked by the Islamic State on a scale comparable to what happened Friday in Paris, President Barack Obama would acknowledge his strategy to defeat the terrorist group needs improvement.
Reports that Salah Abdelsalam, the 26-year-old Belgian-born man who is the subject of an global manhunt, was stopped by police crossing the French-Belgian border after Friday night’s attacks have prompted criticism of the EU’s Schengen system, a fulcrum of European Union policy which allows people to pass through a core group of European Union and a few non-EU countries without having to show a passport. Yesterday, French aircraft bombed ISIL’s quasi-capital city of Raqqa in Syria.
Lawmakers may insert provisions into a fiscal 2016 omnibus spending bill being drafted calling for a comprehensive strategy backed by a more aggressive US posture, and also are considering whether to add money to a war funding account, House Armed Services Chairman Mac Thornberry said Tuesday. I seem to recall so many of our top military leaders, both active and retired, publicly stating their frustration with Mr. Obama’s tendency to ignore their advice. Trump also said the Paris attacks could’ve been prevented if they had guns, so take his ISIS strategy with a pound of salt.
I’ve never been more concerned. “But…it is going to take time”. “The bad events in Paris were obviously a awful and sickening setback”. “Even as we grieve with our French friends, however, we can’t lose sight that there has been progress being made”.
He pointedly denied suggestions from the press that he had underestimated ISIS, and hadn’t done enough to root the group out of Iraq and Syria. Iraqi forces are fighting to take back Ramadi.
Bozell did not agree with Varney that this toughness would continue, but he did note CNN’s Christiane Amanpour was tough after the press conference, announcing in Paris: “He said something that was pretty incredible – according to numerous military experts here and around the world who I’ve spoken to – that our strategy is working. Slamming the door in their faces would be a betrayal of our values”, the U.S. leader said.
“There will be an intensification of the strategy that we put forward, but the strategy that we put forward is the strategy that ultimately is going to work”, Obama told reporters.
“The region would supply the bulk of the forces – we’d have to be part of it”, Graham said on MSNBC.
The United States is reaching out to all in the anti-ISIL effort, the president said.
Joe Scarborough: How stupid do they think we are?
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“Creating a strategy means that we – we create a no-fly zone, create safe havens for the remnants of the Syrian Free Army to – to be built up”.
