Obama: USA ‘will not relent’ in Islamic State campaign

United States President Barack Obama on Sunday said that fighting the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is a very realistic goal and expressed confidence about that target being achieved.

Condemning “in the strongest terms” ISIL and other terrorist groups in the region such Al-Nusrah Front, the Council Member States “to eradicate the safe haven they have established over significant parts of Iraq and Syria”. Mr Obama and Mr Putin spoke last week at the Group of 20 summit in Turkey, a 35-minute meeting that the White House described as constructive. If we want to stop these terrorists, we can’t stay on defense.

“I get exhausted of President Obama and Hillary Clinton lecture the American people that we are somehow ungenerous when we are providing for these people, but we don’t want to risk the safety of our children here at home”, Mr. Cruz said Friday at a campaign event. The militant group is now setting its sights on targets outside its stronghold, including the attacks in Paris that killed 130 people and wounded hundreds more.

Since ISIS claimed responsibility and credit for the attacks, French President Francois Hollande called on the French to remain united. Discussions will continue in Vienna searching for a political solution. Elections would take place within 18 months, under the proposal.

Ending a trip to Asia, Obama implored Americans not to let the specter of terror cause them to compromise their values or change the way they live.

Driving the debate about accepting Syrian refugees in the US, as in Europe, are concerns that terrorists could exploit the system to enter the country and carry out more attacks. “They can not strike a mortal blow against the United States or against France”. The House bill increasing security for the refugee program passed by a vote of 289-137, with almost 50 Democrats supporting it. That is a margin that might allow lawmakers to override Obama’s promised veto if the bill also passes in the Senate.

The resolution also expressed deepest condolences to the victims of the terrorist attacks and their families and to the people and Governments of Tunisia, Turkey, Russia, Lebanon and France, and to all governments whose citizens were targeted in these attacks and all other victims of terrorism.

As the USA has focused on defeating the Islamic State group, it’s softened its stance on the Syrian leader. Even the most optimistic assessment, the president’s ill-timed claim that the Islamic State is “contained”, is a far cry from the White House’s initial declaration over a year ago that the group would be “destroyed”. “They’re a bunch of killers with good social media”. “It was an attack on an ally and we know who the attacker is”. He said the women reminded him of his teenage daughters and his late mother.

“I think his strategy was meant to be a long, slow strategy that would keep us out of deep engagement, so no sending of Pennsylvania National Guard troops, for example, but to keep us out of that long, deep engagement that would be politically impossible to sustain in this country after the long war in Iraq and Afghanistan”, said Goodson, who briefs a few of the country’s highest-ranking officials on these matters.