In addition to the attacks in the French capital on Friday, ISIS has been blamed for two bombings in Turkey this year that killed around 130 people. He said most of his critics are simply “talking as if they’re tough” and offering no real ideas. Bush told CNN the USA should take a limited number of refugees and the US should focus on saving Christians.
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One of their key pledges will be a crackdown on networks that finance terrorism, said French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius. European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said: “We should not mix the different categories of people coming to Europe”. He said the danger of the group is the reason the U.S.is operating in Iraq and Syria, and why it has mobilized 65 countries to go after ISIS.
He also rejected Republican criticism of the Obama administration’s plan to allow more Syrian refugees into the U.S.
“That’s shameful”, Obama declared.
Republicans and also a few Democrats have challenged Obama’s approach to the Islamic State, saying he lacks a clear strategy.
The president admitted, however, that operations against IS in Iraq and Syria will not be enough to defeat the Islamic militants.
Obama said U.S. can presumably send 50,000 troops into Syria.
Despite the heavy shadow cast by the attacks in Paris, world leaders pressed on with their original agenda, pledging in a draft to agree legally-binding goals on climate change at a conference in Paris later this month but making no mention of whether they will help developing countries meet the targets. “According to an initial assessment, 116 trucks were destroyed in the attack, which took place near Deir al-Zour, an area in eastern Syria that is controlled by the Islamic State”.
Obama also said the Paris attacks had stiffened the world’s resolve to stand against the Islamic State, which he said was “the face of evil” on the planet. “It’s the ideology that they carry with them and their willingness to die”.
“The people who are fleeing Syria are the most harmed by terrorism…they are parents, they are children, they are orphans”, Obama said.
“We don’t have religious tests to our compassion”, Obama said Monday during a news conference in Antalya, Turkey, after the conclusion of the G-20 summit there.
“They laughed at me when I said to bomb the ISIS controlled oil fields”.
Leaders of the Group of 20 major economies observe a minutes silence in memory of the Paris attacks before a working session at the G20 summit in the Mediterranean resort city of Antalya, Turkey, November 15, 2015.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump says he would strongly consider closing mosques with radical leadership because of the Paris attacks.
Trump said, if elected, he would consider shutting down Islamic mosques in the United States in an effort to combat Islamic State. The plan appears to be based largely on a Russian proposal that envisions negotiations between Assad’s government and opposition groups starting by January 1.
Still, sharp differences over Assad’s future and disagreements about what militant groups in Syria should be considered terrorists have dampened hopes for a breakthrough.
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But the United States and its allies have no choice, Obama contends, but to continue down the long and arduous path of rebuilding Syria with Syrian hands, and Iraq with Iraqi hands.
