Obama fails in fight with ISIS

And in an air war totally unauthorized by Congress, US warplanes have launched thousands of strikes on alleged ISIS targets in Iraq and Syria since 2014.

In its statement of responsibility issued on Saturday ISIS claimed that it attacked France because it “insulted the prophet” and “for boasting about attacking Islam”. “To the degree that anyone would equate the awful acts in Paris to the views of Islam, those kinds of stereotypes are counterproductive, they’re wrong”.

“If you have a handful of people who don’t mind dying, they can kill a lot of people”, Obama said, stating the tragically obvious. Al-Shabaab, now the Al-Qaeda affiliate in Somalia, was formed in the aftermath of that intervention.

This is a massive problem when the leader of the free world would rather side with Muslim terrorism than with his motherland’s ideals: freedom and liberty.

If you follow many conservatives on Twitter, then your timeline is undoubtedly chock-full of a certain quote from President Barack Obama about how he thinks the USA should respond to the terrorist attacks in Paris. USA “leadership” in the anti-ISIS campaign only reinforces the dependency of countries in the region on the US for their security, a situation that breeds both poor governance and anti-American sentiment.

KARL: Absolutely. They point out there is an extensive vetting process that includes the intelligence community, the Department of the State and Homeland Security, in fact, George, it takes 18 to 24 months for a refugee to go through that process before they can step foot in the united States.

Assad isn’t going to give the USA access to his database. That was how Obama, in Manila, rebuked Republicans on Tuesday for expressing concern about ISIS terrorists slipping into America amid the 10,000 Syrian refugees he wants to bring here. And he didn’t back away from his pre-Paris assertion that ISIS had been contained. On Monday, President Francois Hollande declared that “France is at war” before a joint session of parliament, and French jets have been pounding the Syrian city of Raqqa, capital of the Islamic State’s self-styled caliphate. The administration could begin direct deliveries while exerting more pressure on Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi to follow through on promises to reach political accords with Sunnis and Kurds. French officials are calling for a wider war against ISIS in Syria and they have vowed to prosecute the war “without mercy”.

“We can retake territory”.

Fed up with his record being held accountable by the media, Obama lectured the press and the world on his policies.

In light of the recent terror attacks in Paris, which left 129 dead and threats of more to come, more than half of US governors are positioning themselves to close the door to incoming Syrian refugees out of fear that Islamic State group members could be leaking through United States borders, according to CNN.

“All right, so this is another variation on the same question”. He conceded that his strategy “does not offer the satisfaction, I guess, of a neat headline or an immediate resolution”, but he warned against a “shoot first and aim later” response.

President Obama said he saw little reason to change his current approach, which relies on a combination of airstrikes, training of local anti-ISIS forces and cutting off the group’s financing and an aversion to sending ground troops.

After all, in 2011 it was President Obama’s refusal to even consider the recommendations from Admiral Michael Mullen, supported by General Lloyd Austin, the American commander in Iraq, and General James Mattis, the head of Central Command, of keeping 16,000 troops in Iraq. The burden is now on the world’s great powers to demonstrate that the group is pursuing a losing strategy.