Did Obama lay out an anti-terrorism strategy – or an egg?

President Barack Obama addresses the nation from the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, Sunday night, December 6, 2016.

He continued his speech by urging the U.S. Congress “to make sure that no one on a No Fly List is able to buy a gun”. He also asked for a new assault weapons ban, noting that a new brand of terrorism relies on inspiring homegrown recruits who can easily acquire military arms.

“As the Internet erases the distance between countries, we see growing efforts by terrorists to poison the minds of people like the Boston Marathon bombers and the San Bernardino killers”, he said.

She said the president would talk about steps taken since September 11 and the recent Paris attacks to safeguard US interests and Americans, and urge them to “not give in to fear at this time”.

Trump also chided Obama for refusing to announce a war against what he called “radical Islamic terrorists”. Authorities say a couple carried out the attack and the wife pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group and its leader in a Facebook post.

“It is clear that the two of them had gone down the dark path of radicalization…” said the president. And he noted that stopping such attacks is different than detecting complicated plots like 9/11.

Obama says the killers had stockpiled weapons and ammunition.

The real-estate magnate even criticized Obama’s use of the acronym ISIL while referring to the terror group in Iraq and Syria.

Mr Obama sought to calm a USA public increasingly jittery about the fight against Islamist militancy that once appeared to be waged overseas.

The White House said Obama would provide an update on Wednesday’s shootings in San Bernardino that killed 14 and wounded 21, and discuss the broader threat of terrorism, including how it has evolved and how he plans to defeat it.

President Obama has appealed to technology companies to help in the fight against ISIS terrorists and other extremist groups in an address to the nation at the weekend. “So long as we stay true to that tradition, I have no doubt that America will prevail”. President Obama also pronounced what the USA should not do. “That kind of divisiveness, that betrayal of our values plays into the hands of groups like ISIL“. Federal law requires the president to notify Congress within 48 hours of ordering USA armed forces into a foreign military operation. “And they account for a tiny fraction of a more than a billion Muslims around the world, including millions of patriotic Muslim-Americans who reject their hateful ideology”.

But if Republican lawmakers were really serious about defeating terrorism, they would take meaningful action to make our country safer rather than touting Islamophobia and demonizing immigrants and refugees.

The president’s most specific policy announcement was to order the departments of state and homeland security to review the fiance visa programme that Malik used to enter the US. But Obama reiterated his objection to putting a large-scale US force on the ground in Iraq or Syria.