USA intensifying strategy against IS: Obama

Speaking at a news conference following G20 leaders’ Summit here, Obama said U.S. will continue working with other countries on a coordinated strategy to destroy the Islamic State without USA combat troops.

While many world leaders were focused on the wounded nation of France, the bleeding city of Paris, and a global manhunt for the terrorists responsible for Friday’s attacks, Obama’s focus was elsewhere.

“Every day we have threat streams coming through the intelligence transit… and the concerns about potential ISIL [ISIS] attacks in the West have been there for over a year now, and they come through periodically”, the president said at the G20 Summit in Antalya, Turkey.

President Barack Obama addressed his GOP critics at the G20 Turkey Leaders Summit Monday, telling them not to “pop off” over his handling of Syrian refugees and the Islamic State.

“We unequivocally condemn all acts, methods and practices of terrorism, which can not be justified under any circumstances, regardless of their motivation, in all their forms and manifestations, wherever and by whomsoever committed”.

“My only interest is to end suffering and to keep the American people safe”, he added, saying that he was open to other ideas but the one thing he will rule out is adopting a tactic “because it is going to work politically, or it is going to somehow in the abstract going to make America look tough, or make me look tough”. “That’s not American. That’s not who we are”.

Besides likely victims, Obama said the usa would be placed in a position of occupying large areas of Iraq and Syria without any clear way out, as happened after the 2003 invasion of Iraq. A strategy must be sustainable.

Syria has been blighted by a complex civil war in which the Islamic State, the Syrian government and multiple Syrian rebel groups fight for control of territory, causing a mass exodus of migrants seeking refuge elsewhere. Obama also steadfastly clarified that there will be no religion test for Syrian refugees and that to institute such a test would be “equating the issue of refugees with the issue of terrorism”.

It stays to be seen, on the other hand, whether the United States itself has a hunger for much more profound association after as of now venturing up air strikes and conferring little quantities of uncommon operations troops to northern Syria to exhort resistance powers in the battle against Islamic State.

The president also rejected the notion that the White House underestimated the Islamic State.

“The strategy that we are putting forward is the strategy that is ultimately is going to work”, Obama repeated during a news conference at the close of two days of talks with world leaders.

“None of this is a substitute”, Cameron said, “for the next urgent need of all: to find a political solution that brings peace to Syria and enables the millions of refugees to return home”.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said the world leaders “agreed that the challenge can’t just be tackled with military means, but only a multitude of measures”.

“All right. So this is another variation on the same question”, Obama said.

“We play into the ISIL narrative when we use routine military tactics that are created to fight a state that is attacking another state”, he said. That’s not what’s going on here.

They also urged “all states” to come to share the burden of refugees, with hundreds of thousands pouring out of war-torn Syria to take the often unsafe path to Europe.