Obama says the U.S.is also working with allies to cut off the group’s financing and will continue to enhance intelligence gathering and sharing.
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So, tonight, this is what I want you to know: The threat of terrorism is real, but we will overcome it. We will destroy ISIL and any other organization that tries to harm us. MSNBC’s top “talent” Keith Olbermann at that point was suggesting Bush was either a “pathological presidential liar” or an “idiot-in-chief”. Obama has consistently done the minimal amount necessary to avoid the charge of fecklessness. “With Daesh, I’m not sure many people will understand what we are speaking about”. He then outlined a plan to strengthen the existing USA effort to train local forces and engage Sunni tribal leaders.
Instead of tippy toeing around the same ISIS issues he has presented again and again and again President Obama missed his chance to go on the offensive – at least the Browns made it to the 29 yard line – to make Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi public enemy No. 1 and for a better way for the United States to be… He added at that time, “We certainly can not allow them to use the experience they are getting in Syria on home soil”.
He describes the differences between Democratic and Republican senators on IS as “slight”, mostly a matter of who sounds toughest. But on a broader USA approach to taking on ISIS in the Middle East, leading Republicans have more in common than not with the president they hope to replace. Trump said Muslims should be banned from the United States. That destruction would require a Sunni ground force, made up of Syrians, Iraqis and perhaps foreign troops from the Persian Gulf and Turkey, with substantial US support.
Beckman tells The Associated Press that the US operations center is “aware of the incident” but that at this time it does not “have any indication our strikes killed Syrian soldiers”.
Overall, 60% say the USA military action against ISIS forces in Iraq and Syria is going badly, that’s actually an improvement since October, when 67% said things were going poorly. He promised in an earlier radio interview to “carpet-bomb them into oblivion”.
Second, it is increasingly urgent that the United States step up its efforts to combat ISIS and other terrorist groups. All Americans must recognize that if these terrorists can bring their deadly attacks to Paris, our nation also stands at risk. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry typically uses Daesh as well, and Obama referred to the group as Daesh when he condemned the group after the Paris attacks.
Islamic StateThe group changed its name to the Islamic State, or IS, in June 2014, when it declared a caliphate in the areas that it controlled, intending the term to represent a successor state to the original seventh-century Islamic nation.
The task force said in a statement Monday it carried out four airstrikes exclusively against oil well heads in Deir el-Zour province on Sunday, all of them some 55 kilometers (34 miles) southeast of Ayyash. But government officials are saying “ISIL”.
But strip away the rhetoric, and Republicans and Democrats are not as far apart on fighting IS as it may appear, say some observers and lawmakers in Congress. Republicans are crying out for a more robust strategy, and so are some key Democrats, potentially leaving the president a lonely man.
“The attitude has to be different”, retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson told ABC’s “Good Morning America” on Monday.
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Carson said he would focus on “using the banking system and all the monetary mechanisms available” against terrorists, but he didn’t elaborate on how he would differ from Obama’s policy. He seemed disappointed. “Is that all there is?” he tweeted. However, he says since the US has seen the scope of ISIS’ power and is continuing to fight the terrorist group, there should be a democratic conversation about how to do it, so he’s been calling for Congress to vote on whether or not to declare war against the so-called Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
