Obama is sticking to the strategy that gave us Paris

US President Barack Obama has defended his strategy to combat Islamic State (Isis) in Syria and Iraq in the wake of deadly terror attacks in Paris. He’s right. Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey said earlier this year thousands in the United States coul be drinking the ISIS Kool-Aid via the Internet.

“But because we would see a repetition of what we’ve seen before, which is if you do not have local populations that are committed to inclusive governance and who are pushing back against ideological extremes that they resurface unless we’re prepared to have a permanent occupation of these countries”.

The attacks have made governors of several states in the USA increasingly hesitant to accept refugees, despite President Obama saying he will not cease accepting refugees.

On Monday, Hollande spoke during a special session of Parliament, where he said the country was at war.

“It’s best that we don’t shoot first and aim later”, said the U.S. president during an intense press conference at the G20 summit in Turkey that saw reporters urging him to “take out these bastards”.

He continued, “if folks want to pop off and have opinions about what they think they would do, present a specific plan”.

He said he planned to intensify his current approach but not fundamentally alter it. “What I do not do is take actions either because it is going to work politically or it is going to somehow, in the abstract, make America look tough or make me look tough”.

‘But I was very proud after 9/11 when he was adamant and clear about the fact that this is not a war on Islam, ‘ Obama said.

Even CNN’s Christiane Amanpour called out Obama’s lies.

But, pointing to their ambitions to attack outside the Middle East, Feinstein said she’s “never been more concerned” about the threat.

The fruits of that cooperation were borne Sunday night, when French jets began a bombardment of Raqqa, the Syrian headquarters of ISIS. Officials said the USA was already using intelligence to help France identify targets for the airstrikes. Obama met Monday with United Kingdom Prime Minister David Cameron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Prime Minister Matteo Renzi of Italy and French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius on the next steps in the fight.

“Our goals here have to be aggressive and leave no stone here, but also recognise this is not conventional warfare”, said the president.

But there appears to be a growing realization among Western nations that the air war has done little to stop the ISIS terrorists, who have established themselves as far away from their declared homeland as Afghanistan and northern Africa.

Tuesday’s airstrikes are the second round involving Canadian jets since the November 13 terror attacks in Paris killed at least 129 people and wounded at least 350 others.

The shock and horror rippling around the globe after Friday’s terrorist attacks in Paris is as discomforting as it is familiar. Obama called that notion “shameful”.

The Paris attacks have also posed a challenge to Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton, who has aligned herself closely with Obama.

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and Texas Sen. Rhodes echoed this sentiment in a White House blog post, explaining that “While both 1/8al-Qaida and the Islamic State3/8 are terrorist forces, they have different ambitions”.

‘Pope Francis came to visit the United States and gave a speech before Congress, he didn’t just speak about Christians who were being persecuted, he didn’t call on Catholic perishes just to admit those who were of the same religious faith he said protect people who are vulnerable, ‘ Obama said.

As world leaders grapple with a migrant crisis in Europe and elsewhere, Obama also warned against “equating the issue of refugees with the issue of terrorism”.

“The overwhelming majority of victims of terrorism….are Muslims”.