Obama rules out large numbers of ground troops

Obama said those behind the attack are “killers with fantasies of glory” who are savvy with social media. “It’s going to take time”.

He says they should present a specific plan.

The US President, who was responding to media posers at the G-20 Summit in Antalya, asserted that ISIS is the “face of evil”. Ted Cruz, who are both running for president, are the children of Cuban immigrants and have called for increased scrutiny of refugees fleeing Syria who seek asylum in the U.S.

“It’s very obvious that his tactics there have not worked”, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee told NBC’s “Today” show on Monday, adding that if the President does not change course, “we’re going to see what happened in Paris, happen in the United States”.

The agreement would allow U.S. personnel to pass threat information including on Islamic State jihadists to France “even more quickly and more often” Obama added.

“You know we put about 500,000 troops on the ground in a place called Vietnam and we still were not successful there”. And, a few of those people I have ordered into battle. And he called on other nations to step up their involvement in the fight against the extremists.

The president condemned last week’s attacks in Paris that killed more than 120 people, but cited progress in the fight against the terror group by pointing to the fact that they hold less territory now than they did before.

Earlier in the press conference, Mr. Obama reiterated US pledge to take in Syrian refugees despite the news that one of the Paris attackers may have entered Europe among the wave of migrants leaving Syria.

The president grew irritated amid repeated questions about whether he had underestimated the strength of the Islamic State.

Obama announced a new effort to share intelligence with France following the attacks, including helping the French military identify targets for the airstrikes. “And the more it becomes apparent that they are simply a network of killers who are brutalizing local populations”.

He said that airstrikes by the U.S.-led coalition have been effective in taking out key members of the terror group’s leadership and that a large presence of ground troops in Syria would be a “mistake”.

“He said something that was pretty incredible, according to numerous military experts here and around the world who I’ve spoken to, that our strategy is working”, suggested Amanpour.