President Barack Obama addressed the nation Sunday night and offered no new initiatives for defeating ISIS, despite new polling data showing that Americans are unhappy with his current strategy.
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“Aggressively training the local forces, which he talked about but not with the intensity that’s necessary, directly arming the Kurdish forces in Iraq is another element of this”, Bush said.
“Nothing President Obama said will assist in either case”.
“It is our responsibility to reject religious tests on who we admit into this country”. Fourth, with American leadership, the worldwide community has begun to establish a process?-?and timeline?-?to pursue ceasefires and a political resolution to the Syrian war.
“He wants a review of the Visa Waiver program… sounds fairly reasonable the system through which folks from European countries can enter the United States without having to apply for a visa”, Rosenberg said. On Saturday, ABC said a neighbor of one shooter is believed to have purchased the firearms.
“That is our strategy, designed and supported by military commanders, counter-terrorism experts, and countries committed to defeating these terrorists”.
The president also laid out steps that Congress should take right away.
First, our military will continue to hunt down terrorist plotters in any country where it is necessary. And finally, the President called on Congress to vote on a new authorization on the use of military force to combat ISIL.
“And that’s why I will urge high-tech and law enforcement leaders to make it harder for terrorists to use technology to escape from justice”, is the sentence used in Obama’s speech to end a paragraph offering conclusions related to America’s strategy to fight ISIS.
“As groups like ISIL grew stronger amid the chaos of war in Iraq and then Syria, and as the internet erases the distance between countries, we see growing efforts by terrorists to poison the minds of people like the Boston Marathon bombers and the San Bernardino killers”, Obama said.
There is concern that major tech companies such as Facebook, Twitter and Google are already helping Western governments more than they let on, though.
“ISIL does not speak for Islam”, Obama said. The president said one of ISIS’s distinguishing characteristics is its exploitation of the Internet to “poison the minds” of would-be followers to commit mass murder in Western cities, such as Paris and San Bernardino.
“That does not mean denying the fact that an extremist ideology has spread within some Muslim communities”. “It’s a real problem that Muslims must confront without excuse”.
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About two-thirds say they disapprove of his handling of ISIS (64%), about the same as in August and May. “We have to remember that”.
