Obama says US strategy in Syria aims to change dynamics

Ahmad al-Ahmad, a Syrian opposition activist who resides in Aleppo, said prices began going up a few days in opposition areas.

Its campaign of violence is not limited to a specific region, nationality, or religion.

Sending thousands of USA ground troops to combat ISIS, however, isn’t on the table because “if you do not have local populations that are committed to inclusive governance and who are pushing back against ideological extremes, (the terrorist groups) resurface, unless we’re prepared to have a permanent occupation of these countries”.

An effective strategy to defeat ISIS can not be implemented unless the United States and its allies are clear-eyed about the challenge they face.

“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.

Our military could dislodge them, he admitted, but explained that then we’d have to occupy and administer the places we capture.

The real conversation shouldn’t be about whether ISIS is contained. The next C-I-C must re-establish the strategy of identifying the extremist ideology that motivates this brand of Islam and incorporate this concept back into our counter terrorism training, military and intelligence communities. ISIL is not contained.

Glen Duerr, Cedarville University assistant professor of global studies, said the US response on the military front has been “OK”, noting American forces have accounted for most airstrikes against ISIS targets. ISIS must be defeated.

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. Will France, the US and their allies be content with the current war on the margins – pushing Islamic State fighters out of one town only to find them regrouping and conquering another?

It’s possible, even likely, that the candidate offering irresponsible rhetoric and proposals about the Paris attacks today will suddenly change his or her tune should he or she actually become president in 2017.

“As a nation, we must remain vigilant in defending our homeland against this type of attack by radicalized individuals holding U.S or European passports”. We stand in solidarity with the people of France. That doesn’t include more than seven million people who are internally displaced – and either transient, and unable to leave the country for lack of funds or who are living rough because, well their house no longer exists.

That appears to be President Obama’s exit strategy from Washington after seeing his exit strategy from Iraq lead to the rise of ISIS. 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.

Mansoor said the United States should work to build an Arab peacekeeping force to take over once ISIS is eliminated and provide aid to end the humanitarian crisis in Syria in a “much more robust fashion”. Terrorists acts that President Obama cited as a setback during his G20 summit press conference. Governors said they would not allow Syrian refugees in their states. What’s clear, though, is that voters attuned to national security (and personal vulnerability) may look for a different kind of leader than this presidential field, both parties, reckoned.

“On that point, I want to speak about a realistic strategy for defeating ISIS”.

In regard to this latest attack, a terrorist captured by French police claimed the attacks were in retaliation for France’s participation in attacks on ISIS targets in Syria.

Obama also ignored his generals in 2011, when it came to implementing his 2008 campaign promise to withdraw USA soldiers from Iraq. President Obama calls those suggestions “shameful” and un-American. “This plan of Obama’s is never going to work”. The outpouring of no-context, ahistorical sympathy after 9/11 helped pave the way for a violent reaction that killed in Iraq alone roughly 150 times as many people as died in Lower Manhattan that day-an opportunistic catastrophe that did more to mock than avenge those deaths.