In a speech that exemplified Franklin Roosevelt’s warning to Americans that “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself”, President Barack Obama proclaimed that the key to defeating ISIS is conquering fear, according to ABC News on Sunday.
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Condemning “in the strongest terms” ISIL and other terrorist groups in the region such Al-Nusrah Front, the Council Member States “to eradicate the safe haven they have established over significant parts of Iraq and Syria”.
Ending a trip to Asia, Obama implored Americans not to let the specter of terror cause them to compromise their values or change the way they live.
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“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.
Adesina added that the president reaffirmed that Nigeria, under his leadership, remains committed to deploying all necessary resources and working with friendly nations, regional, continental and global organisations to speedily overcome the continuing threat of terrorism to world peace and security. Hollande will then travel to Russia to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin. We’re strengthened by people from every religion, including Muslim Americans.
“American leadership is us caring about people who have been forgotten, or who have been discriminated against, or who have been tortured”, Mr. Obama told reporters at the refugee center in Kuala Lumpur.
ISIS also used a bomb to take down a Russian jetliner over Egypt last month, killing 224, and either claimed or is believed responsible for acts of terror in Libya, Tunisia, Yemen, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Egypt, Turkey, Bangladesh and Lebanon.
But Assad does not directly target the United States and the deal among competing nations interests will need to include a longer-term transition for the brutal dictator than desired, among other compromises.
Obama has been able to be so passive because of the effectiveness of his blame Bush strategy, which says because George W. Bush started this mess, neither he nor his surrogate, Hillary Clinton, bear any responsibility for making it worse. All this occurred after the deaths of up to 17,000 Iraqis and the dislocation of millions of Syrians within the caliphate that the Islamic State group first brutally established in eastern Syria and western Iraq.
The USA and its allies will press ahead with their battle against Islamic State in Syria and Iraq with or without Russia’s cooperation, he said.
In a speech detailing her own plans for combating terrorism, Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton advocated a more muscular approach. “Not when we respond on the basis of fear”.
In America, Attorney General Loretta Lynch said that the USA stands “in solidarity with France, as it has stood with us”. “We know that there could also be a risk of chemical or biological weapons”.
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The president also paid tribute to Nohemi Gonzalez, a 23-year-old from California who was killed in the Paris attacks, and Anita Ashok Datar, a 41-year-old from Maryland who died in Friday’s attack in Mali.
