How frequent are US Islamist attacks?

“We’re not going to solve this problem by passing any one reform, but I think we need to do something and this is one way to move forward”, Troutman said.

The FBI has declared the massacre at San Bernardino as an Islamic terrorist act, squashing President Obama’s workplace violence assertion.

The president’s decision to speak from the Oval Office on U.S. prime-time television reflected the White House’s concern that his message on the recent attacks has not broken through, particularly in the midst of a heated presidential
campaign.

The Mobile congressman said he would have liked to have seen Obama explain what the strategy is to combat ISIS on social media, which the extremist group uses to recruit followers.

But Obama emphasized that such backlash and division is exactly what the terrorist group wants.

Obama said he would urge private companies and law enforcement leaders to work together to ensure potential attackers can’t use technology to evade detection. And their carping would have more credibility if they would specifically authorize military force against the Islamic State as Obama has asked. He said that the current strategy of airstrikes and special forces would allow for a more sustainable victory. Killers hell-bent on mass murder, whether from Islamic countries, the United States or elsewhere, are virtually impossible to detect before they commit acts of terror, including, if necessary, suicidal attacks that take their lives along with their victims.

So his brutal rhetoric coupled with the terrorist attack in San Bernardino may actually be helping his cause. “I think the President was quite direct about the role that those Muslim Americans can play in defeating ISIL, both in terms of the responsibility that the Muslim community has to stand up and speak out against those extremist voices inside their community”, he said.

Obama said the way to defeat the terrorists who are intent on attacking us is to “enlist Muslim communities as some of our strongest allies, rather than push them away through suspicion and hate”. Yes to Muslim leaders in America doing more to counter the nihilistic strain of Islam that is infecting one of the world’s great religions. In a primetime speech last night, he said America will overcome the threat.

Obama repeated his long-standing opposition to an American-led ground war in the Middle East and made no mention of the more aggressive action others have suggested, including enforcing a no-fly zone and safe corridors in Syria. Our success won’t depend on tough talk or abandoning our values or giving into fear.

The president again called for legislation that would prevent anyone on the terror watch list from purchasing a gun, but he did not announce anything new in his strategy against ISIS in Iraq and Syria.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s latest press release states that he would like the United States to halt all immigration by Muslims.

The president says the West is not at war against Islam.

The speech signaled how anxious the White House has become about the trajectory the war against the Islamic State, or ISIS, could take if a sense of widespread panic, turbocharged by election year politics, started shaping domestic and foreign policy.

In closing, the president noted that freedom is more powerful than fear, saying the nation has always met challenges, whether “war or depression, natural disasters or terrorist attacks”.