Obama on ISIS: ‘They’re a bunch of killers with good social media’

French president François Hollande is in the middle of his grand world tour to try and extract political pinky swears from as many leaders as possible when it comes to promising to help fight ISIS.

Following a series of terror attacks overseas, Americans are growing more concerned that a similar attack could take place in the United States. “Putin says he’s going after ISIS, but from what we can see, he’s mainly going after the Free Syrian Army or the Kurds or remnants of the people on the ground fighting [Syrian president Bashar] al-Assad”.

US President Barack Obama arrives at the APEC Summit in Manila on November 17, 2015. The president went on to say that the USA does not “succumb to fear” and the most powerful tool we have as a nation is to “not elevate them” or make them believe that they’re doing something important. “On Monday, White House press secretary Josh Earnest repeated the welcome offer from Putin but said it’s on the table only if Russian Federation moves from propping up Assad to making defeating ISIS its priority.Schiff bluntly said the White House must understand “they are not our allies.”They do not share our interests in many respects”, Schiff said”.

According to ABC News, President Obama said that the USA plans to show such support by sharing knowledge and providing additional supplies and military via airlift.

“We paused refugees being allowed to enter the country in 2011, you know who did it?”

Hollande said that, militarily, France would continue to strike at Raqqa, Syria, which Islamic State has declared the capital of its nominal caliphate. Obama directly addressed how the US plans to react to the tragedy and to the terrorist group ISIS moving forward.

Obama and Hollande will meet in the Oval Office at the White House on Tuesday morning.

He described IS as “a bunch of killers, with good social media”, but pointed out that the global coalition against their “twisted ideology” included many leaders from Muslim communities. He said the USA had survived mass casualties before and pointed out that New York’s Times Square was again filled with people – “rightly so”.

The President did not name Republican presidential candidates, but his comments were a clear denunciation of the warnings issued by Republican candidates about a rising threat from terrorism that have rocked the 2016 presidential race since the Paris attacks. “We love France for your spirit and your culture and your joie de vivre”.

“Even as we destroy ISIL on the battlefield – and we will destroy them – we will take back land that they are now in”, the president said. “That’s the spirit we need today”.

Immediately after finishing the press conference, Obama headed to the airport in Kuala Lumpur to fly home and find out whether he can hold the line against Republican efforts to halt the entry of Syrian refugees.

“President Hollande, my fellow Americans, let’s remember we face greater threats to our way of life before”.