“We need a new President – FAST!”, he said, adding that the USA should have gone after oil years ago. Obama has addressed the nation several times since then, but has preferred other backdrops like the White House East Room where he announced the death of Osama Bin Laden in 2011.Sundays in America mean church and professional football.
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Malik came to the US on a K-1 visa, known as a “fiancée visa”, when she moved to the United States to marry Syed Farook, her husband and accomplice in the massacre in the Southern California city last week.
White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough spoke at a ceremony to light a 30-foot menorah in D.C.
The US President also vowed to “destroy” the Islamic State group, branding its fighters “thugs and killers”.
After more than a year of an indecisive military campaign, ISIS maintains its sanctuaries in Iraq and Syria to conduct and inspire attacks like Paris and San Bernardino, he said. Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus said the United States faces a real threat from radical Islamic terrorism. He says they represent a “tiny fraction” of the Muslim community. He emphasized that there is no conflict between the West and Islam.
That points up the greatest danger from ISIL – that Americans, acting from fright, will increase intrusive surveillance of all Americans or target Muslim Americans in ways that would undermine American values.
“What we can not do is turn against one another”, he said, by making this a war of America against Islam.
“Congress should act to make sure no one on a no-fly list should buy a gun. I know there are some who reject any gun-safety measures, but the fact is that our intelligence and law-enforcement agencies, no matter how effective they are, can not identify every would-be mass shooter, whether that individual was motivated by ISIL or some other hateful ideology”.
Obama also made a connection between national security and the need for gun control following America’s latest mass shooting. He said it is now too easy for people who want to harm Americans to buy guns. Instead, we will prevail by being strong and smart, resilient and relentless.
The president attempted Sunday to ease escalating concerns among Americans that the administration is not doing enough to combat the Islamic State, which has been tied to numerous high-profile terrorist attacks around the world in recent weeks. “This was an act of terrorism created to kill innocent people”. “They had stockpiled assault weapons, ammunition, and pipe bombs”.
However, he didn’t go so far to call it an act of “Islamic” terrorism, cautioning that even as a Muslim employee and his wife carried out the deadly attacks, there was “no evidence that the killers were directed by a terrorist organization overseas or that they were part of a broader conspiracy here at home”. Still, he called on Muslims in the US and around the world to take up the cause of fighting extremism.
“People are scared not just because of these attacks but because of a growing sense that we have a president that is completely overwhelmed by them”, Florida Senator Marco Rubio, who is seeking the Republican presidential nomination for the November 2016 election, told Fox News.
Speaking in a measured tone, Mr Obama used his 14-minute nationally televised appearance to draw a careful line about what he would and would not do.
Underscoring its importance, this will be just Obama’s third Oval Office address. But Obama’s staff arranged a podium in the Oval Office where Obama will stand, with his desk and the American flag behind him.
State Democratic Party Chair Jaxon Ravens in an email statement said Obama laid out proposals Sunday that, if implemented, could make the country safer from the threat of terrorism.
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But while his address contained his most passionate and robust rhetoric about the war on ISIS, Obama did not detail major new policy approaches.
