Obama moves to shore up coalition as rival Russian Federation courts France

Since IS militants killed 130 in France nine days ago, Obama’s strategy has come under repeated questioning. The most powerful tool we have in fighting terrorists like ISIL is that we can not be afraid. “It’s absolutely vital for every country, every leader, to send a signal that the viciousness of a handful of killers does not stop the world from doing vital business”, he said.

So basically Hollande is up a creek, even if he’s going to lobby the White House with as much la jugeote as he can muster.

Mr. Obama said Mr. Putin needs to make a “strategic adjustment” and drop Russia’s military support for Syrian President Bashar Assad, saying the civil war that has allowed the Islamic State to grow stronger can’t be stopped until Mr. Assad leaves office.

Only recently has Russian Federation stepped up its targeting of extremists after weeks of pummeling other opposition groups, including those with US backing.

Obama said his message is that he will “do everything we can to destroy this particular network”. “While our country has a long history of welcoming refugees and has an important role to play in the heartbreaking Syrian-refugee crisis, our first and most important priority must be to ensure that any refugee who comes to the USA does not present a threat to the American people”, the senators said in the letter.

“Nearly five years of fighting between the Assad government and rebels has created a vacuum that allowed the Islamic State to thrive in both Syria and Iraq”. Islamic State outposts were clearly “gaining strength” in Libya, Afghanistan, Lebanon and Egypt – as the bombs that killed 43 in Beirut this month, and took down a Russian plane over Sinai last month, showed.

As President Obama’s administration prepares for the arrival of French President Francois Hollande on Tuesday, the criticism grows over his handling of ISIS and Syrian refugees.

The talks seemed to go well on the surface and could help fix frayed U.S.-Canada ties. But where the US could lead is in breaking the Islamic State’s territorial control of Iraq – and that’s a task worth doing because commanding a state is what makes the group a global threat. The call for calm contrasts dramatically with a few of the GOP presidential candidates who have tried to keep Syrian immigrants from coming to the US, and even warning that another 9-11 was on its way. Half of all Americans would outright reject refugees while 47 percent would admit refugees into the USA under strict screening measures. The president has since softened his tone. In October, Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey said there were limits on how thoroughly Syrian refugees entering the USA could be screened for security risks.

Obama’s latest flurry of summitry illustrated how his strategy of “rebalancing” US policy toward Asia-Pacific countries has consistently run into the geopolitical reality that the persistently volatile Middle East can not be ignored. We will stand up for the rights of all people, no discrimination against religion.

The president said that more than 100 nations, 20 institutions and 120 civil society groups, including many Muslim community leaders from around the world, joined an anti-terrorism summit at the United Nations.

Obama brought up the 9/11 analogy when he answered questions at a news conference Sunday. He said the USA had survived mass casualties before and pointed out that New Yorks Times Square was again filled with people — “rightly so.”“I was very proud of the fact that the fundamental nature of America and how we treated each other did not change, ” Obama said. “If you are a parent and you saw those kids, and thought about what they went through, the notion we couldn’t find a home for them anywhere in the United States of America…?” he said, trailing off into anger.