Obama to host French President Hollande at White House

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When asked about potential deliverables from the Obama-Hollande meeting, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said Monday he did not want to downplay the significance of expressions of solidarity and support.

In a follow-up address later on, the president called the attacks in Paris a mere “setback”, whereas French President Hollande called the attacks a “act of war”. “It would also help civilians under attack by the Syrian government”. A CBS News poll published on Monday found that 66% of Americans believe that he does not yet have a clear plan for defeating ISIS.

Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron, left, and France’s…

Obama says he and Hollande agreed the nations in the U.S.-led coalition must do more together to fight the Islamic State. “There is no sense that the country has been taken in the wrong direction”.

Indeed, Obama seized the podium at the White House Tuesday and spoke directly to the American as well as French people.

The latest on the deadly attacks in Paris and the heightened security in Europe.

“Meanwhile, Barack Obama, titular head of the free world, has responded to Paris with weariness and annoyance”, Krauthammer wrote. “But by targeting France, the terrorists — the murderers — were targeting the world”.

Even as Obama spoke, one GOP candidate, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, was accusing the President of forgetting the lessons of 9/11 and faulted him for referring to ISIS at a press conference in Asia on Sunday as “a group of killers who are good at social media”.

Their divergent tones reflect different popular standing as well.

Obama said that ISIS “cannot be tolerated – it must be destroyed”.

Hollande, for his part, has seen his stature, at least on foreign policy, soar.

“If Russian Federation is prepared to change their strategy and prepared to focus their efforts on ISIL and to work with the global community to do that, then we would welcome them as members of our coalition”, he said.

Hollande can rely on a firm base of domestic support for his military moves from a shocked populace, which had already approved of anti-terror missions he ordered in Mali and the Central African Republic.

Russian Federation is where President Hollande travels later this week.

Hollande’s visit to Washington comes amid a spate of jet-set diplomacy for the French leader.

Another aspect of the anti-ISIS fight that Obama will likely underscore with Hollande is the influx of Syrian refugees who are seeking resettlement in both leaders’ nations.

A day later, the French President will be hosting German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Paris.

According to the ministry, the number of aircraft deployed in Syria has been doubled to 69 units and the campaign has been enhanced by strategic bombers taking off from Russian territory. But he insisted a partnership is impossible as long as Russian Federation stands by Syrian President Bashar Assad, who is blamed by the USA for plunging his country into chaos and creating the vacuum that allowed the Islamic State to strengthen. “And we don’t know that yet”.

Obama said Russian cooperation in the fight against the Islamic State would be “enormously helpful”.

Obama added that the best way to bring peace to Syria is to support a cease fire and a political transition away from Assad.

“The first thing President Obama should be doing with President Hollande is remembering the concept of the West and showing and meaning a willingness to put intelligence, military and economic tools in defense of those values”.

Le Drian ruled out the use of French ground troops in Syria, including special forces, even though the United States has sent a small elite unit into the region.