Kuala Lumpur: President Barack Obama said the United States will eventually defeat the Islamic State (IS) and its “twisted ideology” but its war on terror is not aimed at any particular religion.
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That will follow two other high-profile meetings on Monday with allies.
“So that has driven our so-called rules of engagement to a degree we have never had in any previous air campaign from desert storm to the present”, the retired general told Royce.
Obama has been to the G20 meeting in Antalya, Turkey, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) gathering in the Philippines capital Manila, and the East Asian and Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summits in Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia.
We seem to have lost, as a country, our will to stand up for freedom.
He also urged the media to help: “I just want to say – during the course of this week, a very hard week, it is understandable that this has been a primary focus”.
“Islamic authorities may enter private premises without a warrant if they deem swift action necessary to catch Muslims suspected of engaging in offenses such as gambling, consumption of alcohol, and sexual relations outside marriage”, says the State Department. This has gone on too long now and it has not gotten better, it’s gotten worse. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, described the group as “enormously strong” and “a quasi-state”.
“Russia has not officially committed to the transition of Assad moving out”, Mr. Obama said in a news conference.
President Obama said America shouldn’t live in fear of ISIS.
The White House has signaled an openness to what it deems more constructive changes to the administration’s refugee program, but Mr. Obama didn’t specify what proposals he would support.
He said that to-date more than 65 countries globally, including Malaysia, have joined hands in the Coalition Against IS led by the US.
Still, surviving isn’t what the Islamic State is all about. Russia, working with Iran and the Syrian regime, insists Assad will remain in power.
“They’ve focused on another goal”, Earnest told reporters, referring to the Russians.
Mead continued, “Obama’s own policy decisions – allowing Assad to convert peaceful demonstrations into an increasingly ugly civil war, refusing to declare safe havens and no fly zones – were instrumental in creating the Syrian refugee crisis”.
“Restrictions on freedom of religion were also a significant concern-including bans on religious groups, restrictions on proselytizing, and prohibitions on the freedom to change one’s religion”, said the State Department. US officials have said Russian Federation has started focusing a few airstrikes against IS. All the presidential rhetoric in the world will do nothing, not one iota, to quell the Islamic State’s continuing effort to expand the territory over which it holds sway.
“The most powerful tool we have for fighting ISIS is to say we’re not afraid, to not elevate it, to (not) buy into their fantasy that they are doing something important”, Obama said.
“These narratives don’t necessarily mesh, but they’re both there and the Russians are cheerfully pushing both forward”, Oliker said.
Since the Paris massacre, Putin has been on a charm offensive with the French.
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Even before Paris, the assertion appeared demonstrably false. From Russia’s ill-fated war in Afghanistan in the 1980s to the similarly troubled times for USA forces in Iraq from 2003 to 2011, large amounts of weapons were left behind or handed over to U.S.-trained forces. And they haven’t discounted the possibility that Moscow will continue playing nice, which could lead to at least a loose version of the “grand coalition” the Russians seek. “We are going to keep on rolling back ISIL in Iraq and in Syria, and take out more of their leaders and commanders so that they do not threaten us”, Obama said, using another acronym for the Islamic State.
