Posted on 09/03/2014 7:10:07 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
TALLINN, Estonia — President Barack Obama said Wednesday that the United States will not be intimidated by Islamic State militants after the beheading of a second American journalist and will build a coalition to “degrade and destroy” the group.
Obama still did not give a timeline for deciding on a strategy to go after the extremist group’s operations in Syria. “It’ll take time to roll them back,” the president said at a news conference during a visit to Europe.
Obama’s comments came after he said the United States had verified the authenticity of a video released Tuesday showing the beheading of freelance reporter Steven Sotloff, two weeks after journalist James Foley was similarly killed.
Obama vowed the U.S. would not forget the “terrible crime against these two fine young men.”
“Our reach is long and justice will be served,” Obama said.
In the Sotloff video, a masked militant warns Obama that as long as U.S. airstrikes against the militant group continue, “our knife will continue to strike the necks of your people.”
Obama responded that he will continue to fight the militant threat and the “barbaric and ultimately empty vision” it represents.
“Our objective is to make sure that ISIL is not an ongoing threat to the region,” he said, using an acronym for the militant group. “And we can accomplish that. It’s going to take some time and it’s going to take some effort.”
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Yep. They have paved his way and supported him from the very beginning.
Now that two of "theirs" are gone will they see any light from that?
Magic 8 Ball says: "It is doubtful."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.”
Does Barack or his mouthpice Earnest ever use the word ‘Islamic’ when referring to ISIL?
We won’t, but he IS!
NO, I’ve noticed that as well.
Obama could have rolled ISIS back as soon as they started crossing Western Iraq. They were wide open and he did nothing.
It would have a been great Live Fire Exercise for our Pilots.
The blood of every innocent murdered by these scum are on his hands.
Sounds like a job for the EPA. Can’t have American heads littering the landscape.
Don’t mean to be flippant, only a way to vent my anger. I hate saying this about the President of the United States, but my hunch is it is not the beheadings as much as it is the world knows about the beheadings.
As long as Americans are slaughtered on a national and global stage, he has to give it at least a little of his attention, if nothing else but for show.
And besides, the Daily Mail writes mean things about him when there is a crisis.
This little boy king od ours is going to realize real soon (by 911) that just spewing words is not going to cut it with anyone on the globe.
Roll them back???
Exterminate the vermin!
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