Obama said it was not clear whether Putin could work effectively with the U.S.-led coalition.Putin needs to go after the people who killed Russias citizens, Obama said.
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“You will see the degree to which they represent the opposite of terror, the opposite of the type of despicable violence we saw in Mali and Paris”, the president said. The region, which includes Chechnya and Dagestan, has become fertile ground for Islamic State propaganda and recruitment, and the majority of the estimated 3,000 Russians fighting in Syria are believed to come from the North Caucasus.
United Nations secretary general Ban Ki-moon said on Sunday he has urged Russian Federation and the United States to cooperate on rooting out terrorism. Assad considers anyone fighting him, together with moderate rebels, to be terrorists.Obama countered: “I don’t foresee a state of affairs through which we will complete the civil war in Syria while Assad remains in power”.
“As part of that strategy, Obama announced plans to streamline the process by which the United States and France share intelligence information about potential terrorists”. “The notion that somehow we would be fearful of them – that our politics would somehow lead us to turn our sights away from their plight – is not representative of the best of who we are”.
“He’s not a mastermind”, Obama said. French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said the West would annihilate Islamic State worldwide.After Obamas return to Washington early Monday, he will prepare for a White House meeting with French President Francois Hollande on Tuesday, where the leaders will discuss bolstering the global coalition fighting IS. The president has since softened his tone. Obama spoke at the end of a nine-day trip to Turkey, the Philippines and Malaysia.
Driving the debate about accepting Syrian refugees in the US, as in Europe, are concerns that terrorists could exploit the system to enter the country and carry out more attacks. Treating people differently because of race or religion, he said, would be a “betrayal of our values”. “And I think we’ll find out over the next several weeks whether or not we can bring about that change in perspective with the Russians”. He believes that the said mission is “going to get done”.
“Our nation was horrified, but it’s not going to be terrorized”, President George W. Bush declared five days after those attacks.
He said, “I’m not afraid that ISIL would beat us due to their operations”.
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“We do not succumb to fear”, Obama said during a news conference in Kuala Lumpur, according to ABC News.
