Obama meets with National Security Council on Paris attacks

We made a decision to look back at Obama’s comments on containing ISIS to see his comments in their complete context.

CBS News Correspondent Margaret Brennan reports that US officials are pressing France and Turkey to spend special forces to Syria to work alongside the 50 USA operators already deployed there.

President Obama made the remarks to reporters today at the G-20 Summit in Antalya, Turkey.

“Creating a strategy means that we – we create a no-fly zone, create safe havens for the remnants of the Syrian Free Army to – to be built up”. It had mostly limited its brutality to building a state-like Islamic caliphate in parts of Syria and Iraq, rather than sending its battle overseas, like its rival al-Qaida. “That needs to stop immediately, and I will continue to lead that fight and protect the people of Louisiana”, Vitter said.

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

“The awful events in Paris were obviously a bad and sickening setback”, Obama said.

“I say that because this is sort of the first internet fueled terrorist group”, the former secretary of state said.

U.S. President Barack Obama said here on Monday that Washington is sharing intelligence and information faster with France in the aftermath of Paris terror attacks, but he refused to commit more USA troops to fight the Islamic State (IS) group. He said the agreement will allow intelligence personnel to “pass threat information, including on ISIL, to our French partners more quickly and more often” and could help prevent further attacks.

The fruits of that cooperation were borne Sunday night, when French jets began a bombardment of Raqqa, the Syrian headquarters of ISIS.

A day before the Paris assault, Obama told ABC News that Islamic State had been “contained” in Iraq and Syria. There, since September 2014, ISIS has lost significant territory and faces the near-term prospect of losing to a multi-prong offensive by the worldwide coalition that could decisively cripple the terrorist group. “I think it’s just the beginning….”

Obama was speaking just before departing from the G20 summit, being held at a Turkish resort 500 miles from the Syrian border. ISIS and AQAP were behind the attacks on satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo this year and have hit Jewish and other sites in France in the past.

The President also called on the nations involved to agree to a political solution inside of Syria.

But there appeared to be little appetite among foreign leaders here for a large-scale ground effort in Syria.

Elsewhere on the airwaves, Republican presidential hopeful Jeb Bush suggested that the vetting process was at least enough to distinguish between Christians – whom the United States should focus on, according to Bush – and everyone else fleeing Syria.

One of the suspected culprits of the Paris terror attack is thought to have entered Europe in the current wave of migrants, leading a few leaders to demand tighter controls on the flow.

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Obama condemned critics who want a “religious test” for admitting refugees from Syria, blasting the idea as un-American.

The US Air Force has done so effectively with the YPG, enabling them to defeat IS at Kobani, and with the Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga, who captured the city of Sinjar last week. Officials from the U.S., French and other Western governments have expressed worries for months about Isis-inspired attacks by militants who fought in Syria, the official noted. “We don’t have religious tests (for) our compassion”.

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and Texas Sen. Five days later, al-Qaeda-linked terrorists attacked two US diplomatic compounds in Benghazi, Libya, killing the USA ambassador and three other Americans on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.

Once a case is referred from the high commissioner to the United States, a refugee undergoes a security clearance check that could take several rounds, an in-person interview, approval by the Department of Homeland Security, medical screening, a match with a sponsor agency, “cultural orientation” classes, and one final security clearance.

The U.S. itself is also expected to use this occasion as an excuse to double-down on the conflict, with last week’s talk of “mission creep” because of USA ground deployments into Syria now all but forgotten, and officials and advisers all insisting the attack proves the need for a “more aggressive” strategy.