“ISIS is the face of evil,” Obama said at the conclusion of the G20 summit in Antalya, Turkey. “Our goal is to destroy this barbaric organization.”
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We play into the ISIL narrative when we act as if they are a state and we use routine tactics used to fight a state that is not a state,” Obama said using the alternative name for the terrorist group. “That’s not what is going on here. These are killers with fantasies of glory.”
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“Slamming the doors in their faces would be a betrayal of our values,” Obama said. Syrian “refugees are the victims of terrorism.”
He doesn’t get it at all. Syrian refugees are both victims and perpetrators of terror, and he has no plan for how to sort them out.
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Pres. Obama: “If folks want to pop off” about ISIS strategy, they should present plan: “Not interested in posing.”
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On calls by some in US to refuse entrance to Syrian refugees, Pres. Obama says, “We do not have religious tests for our compassion.”