President Obama Condemns ISIS In Oval Office Address
“And by drawing upon every aspect of American power”.
America has consistently been the model of democracy and freedom for most countries.
After criticism – some even from liberal allies – that his statements following the attacks in Paris and California didn’t demonstrate sufficient urgency, Mr Obama addressed the nation from the Oval Office, a setting he has only used twice before, and one presidents traditionally reserve for moments of crisis.
“Since President Obama is refusing to lead, Congress has no choice but to take the lead and authorize military action against this vile enemy”, Byrne said. Fear is a effect of the freedom that Washington promotes.
“We’re going to have to have more support from our friends in the technology world to deny online space”. This fear is a effect of memories of the recent past. Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, where there is war, starvation and devastation. Obama has delivered formal remarks to the nation from the Oval Office twice before -in the summer of 2010, as oil gushed into the Gulf of Mexico from a broken well, and a few months later, as he announced the end of combat operations in Iraq, declaring that he had made good on a central promise. Yesterday’s address emphasized the importance of the tragic events in America.
What would we give up if we stepped back from any involvement in conflicts in troubled parts of the world and let them solve their problems themselves? Authorities say a couple carried out the attack and the wife pledged allegiance to the Islamic State and its leader in a Facebook post.
One of them was a new war authorization by Congress “to demonstrate that the American people are united and committed” in the war against the Islamic State’s armies.
The White House has acknowledged the error. “There are cases where we believe that individuals should not have access to social media for that objective”, the official told Reuters. But Obama says there’s no evidence the killers were directed by a terrorist organization overseas. That plays into the Islamic State’s hands, the president said.
“If we send our military, they’ll get the job done”.
The reality is that Obama was dismissive of the threat presented by the radical Islamist group as it was growing in the void left by the US withdrawal from Iraq, and has been stubbornly reluctant to aggressively engage the radicals in Syria.
“It is our responsibility to reject religious tests on who we admit into this country”. We’ve stepped up this effort since the attacks in Paris, and will continue to invest more in approaches that are working on the ground.
DÍAZ-BALART: Some people like Trump and others say, well, the Muslim community needs to be more engaged in fighting against this, you know, radical Islamic terrorism, that the Muslim community is not doing enough.
Trump had promised to provide live commentary about Obama’s speech on Twitter, but offered little as it unfolded. Yet, one can buy weapons on the Internet, bypassing any permission.
“Is that all there is?”
“They know they can’t defeat us on the battlefield… but they also know that if we occupy foreign lands, they can maintain insurgencies for years, killing thousands of our troops and draining our resources, and using our presence to draw new recruits”.
Republican presidential candidates, especially Senator Ted Cruz, nearly immediately blasted the president’s policies in dealing with the threat of ISIL.
To many people around the world, things feel out of kilter, as if a plague has been set loose, amorphous but loud.