Dancing With Dictators Against Islamic State

Meanwhile, the governors of Texas, Alabama and MI said that they will not allow Syrian refugees into their states. Obama called that notion “shameful”. It is a patient strategy that involves airstrikes that target the Islamic State’s leadership and infrastructure, and couples the airstrikes with action to limit the group’s abilities on the ground while supporting the Iraqi, Syrian and Kurdish forces that are fighting the Islamic State.

The president gave no indication Monday that he’s interested in an overhaul of the administration’s current practice of targeted air strikes in Syria and Iraq and the arming and training of opposition forces in the region.

Obama conceded that the attacks in France marked a “terrible and sickening setback” in the anti-Islamic State campaign.

“We are going to continue the strategy that has the best chance of working”, Obama told a news conference.

“I also showed our colleagues satellite images and aerial photographs that show very clearly the scale of this illegal trade in oil and petroleum products”, he said.

McCain said no one is recommending that the US send 100,000 troops to fight ISIS.

President Barack Obama, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of Turkey and Prime Minister David Cameron of the United Kingdom observe a moment of silence for the victims of the terrorist attacks in France. “When we send troops in, those troops get injured”. Or Libya, perhaps. Or if there’s a terrorist network that’s operating anywhere else in North Africa or Southeast Asia. From Turkey, Obama headed to Asia for regional summits in the Philippines and Malaysia. Yet, Obama additionally tries to cajole other European and Middle Eastern nations into more substantial strides to demonstrate their military responsibility, a United States authority said before the president set out on his nine-day tour outing. “And if that is the card you’re playing, then how many innocents in places like Western Europe and perhaps in the US will die because of it?”

“I will call both Obama and [Russian President Vladimir] Putin to unite our efforts and seek a solution”, Hollande said.

“When I said that we are containing their spread in Iraq and Syria – in fact, they control less territory than they did previous year”, he was quoted as saying by the Guardian newspaper.

Obama says one of the challenges of terrorism is to understand that a handful of people who don’t mind dying can kill a lot of people.