Obama Criticized for Claim That ISIS Is ‘Contained’

“I think we all recognize that this is a particular problem that has roots in Muslim communities”, Obama told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria in a January interview.

The victims were people “not seeking to harm anyone, going about their way of life, our way of life, and were killed by brutal, callous murderers that want to destroy everything our countries stand for … we will not let them, and we will redouble our efforts to wipe out this poisonous extremist ideology”, Cameron said.

Trump sent his prayers on Twitter.

Erdogan also raised anew the possibility of creating a safe zone for refugees along the Turkish-Syrian border, an idea that the USA has thus far rejected, Reuters reported. But you don’t see this systemic march by ISIL across the terrain.

President Barack Obama has not supported a no-fly zone in the conflict.

It is not yet clear who exactly perpetrated the Paris attacks, but the French government has blamed ISIS and USA officials have said there is no reason to doubt that assertion.

Earlier Friday, Obama called ISIS “contained” in the Middle East, a notion that the Paris attacks throw into question. Of the Paris attacks, Kerry said: “If they’ve done anything, they’ve encouraged us today to do even harder work to make progress and to help resolve the crises that we face”.

Gen. David Petraeus said the United States has to have a ground force in Syria if its goal is to defeat the Islamic State. There may also be a few ISIS stragglers stuck there. She already appears to be much more hawkish than her party, which has little appetite for a new military commitment in the chaos of the Middle East. But beyond Syria, ISIS has become a more determined and deadly terrorist organization than even Al Qaeda.

Obama, whom Democrats and Republicans alike have urged to take a more aggressive approach toward eradicating the Islamic State in war-torn Syria, met Saturday with his National Security Council before departing for Turkey to discuss the latest intelligence regarding the attacks in Paris.

On the Republican side, Sen.

Stavridis, who is dean of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, said North Atlantic Treaty Organisation special forces could be called on in Iraq and Syria as aircraft spotters and as trainers of anti-IS fighters.

But the back and forth on ISIS that has played out in the GOP primary race has most exposed the two front-running candidates Trump and Carson – particularly in presidential debates.

For now, the U.S.is relying on a buildup of airpower at the Incirlik airbase in Turkey to increase the number of airstrikes against ISIS in Syria, Cook said.

“There’s special operation forces writ large, and I’m talking now about both so-called black special operations, the special mission units, publicly known as Delta Seal Team Six and the Rangers, for over the last decade under JSOC control, conducting targeted, precise, counter-terrorist operations, as many as 10 to 15 per night on average during the surge in Iraq, and just about that during the surge in Afghanistan as well, and there’s never enough of those, frankly, and there certainly aren’t enough of the …Green Beret Special Forces”, he said. But that probably will not mean dramatic moves like launching a US or worldwide ground offensive or accelerating aerial bombing in hopes of eliminating the global threat of violent extremism. With its attack on Paris nightlife on Friday, ISIS showed its willingness to strike all “infidels”.

“They didn’t have a coherent and coercive policy then, and they don’t particularly have one now”.

In his statement on Friday night, Rubio offered the first hints of how his rhetoric on ISIS could evolve past his frequent and vehement critiques of Obama’s leadership style.