Posted on 11/24/2015 4:13:31 PM PST by markomalley
President Obama concluded his formal remarks at a joint press conference with French President Francois Hollande on Tuesday by saying that next week’s Global Climate Conference in Paris will be a “powerful rebuke” to terrorists such as the Islamic State.
Appearing together in the White House East Room, Obama and Hollande each made a statement on the current state of the effort to counter the Islamic State before taking questions from the press.
After expressing solidarity with France in the wake of the recent terrorist attacks in Paris carried out by Islamic State and discussing more broadly the campaign against the jihadist group, Obama stated, “And next week, I will be joining President Hollande and world leaders in Paris for the Global Climate Conference. What a powerful rebuke to the terrorists it will be when the world stands as one and shows that we will not be deterred from building a better future for our children.”
Hollande is visiting Washington this week to seek a greater commitment from the United States in fighting Islamic State as the French president has taken far more aggressive military actions in Iraq and Syria since the Paris attacks, including the deployment of the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier to the region and increased airstrikes.
Many people in the U.S.—both Democrats and Republicans—as well as allies abroad, feel that Obama is not doing enough to counter the terror group and address the civil war in Syria while the president has argued that his strategy is working in pushing back the jihadist group but will take time.
Critics of the president’s IS policies also cite the contrast in words between the two leaders beyond their actions, pointing out that Obama referred to the attacks in Paris as a “setback” while Hollande called the deadly assaults “an act of war.”
The U.S. said it would “step up” its coordination with France by providing more intelligence and additional airlift. Moreover, Obama called on the European Union to implement a policy to allow airlines to share passenger information. There were no significant changes in strategy, however.
Hollande met with British Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday, who pledged to ask and fight in parliament to approve military action in Syria, and the French president is scheduled to travel to Moscow to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin after leaving Washington. France has coordinated military action with Russia in recent days, and some analysts believe the French leader will leverage potential cooperation with Russia to get the U.S. to become more involved in the fight against Islamic State.
Russia has formed an alliance of sorts with Iran and its Lebanon-based terror proxy Hezbollah primarily meant to prop up the regime of embattled Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who the United States believes must ultimately be removed from power as part of a political transition in Syria.
President Obama has said he is happy to work with Russia on fighting Islamic State, but as long as Moscow is committed to preserving Assad, any potential arrangement between the two cannot work.
Nobody expects the Climate Change Inquisition! Our chief weapon against ISIS is controlling “global warming “and welcoming Syrian “refugees”. ... Our *two* weapons are controlling global warming and welcoming Syrian refugees and keeping our border open. ... Our *three* weapons are controlling global warming, welcoming Syrian refugees and keeping our border open ... and not criticizing Islam. ... Our *four* ... no ... *Amongst our weaponry ... are such elements as controlling global warming, welcoming Syrian refugees, keeping our border open, an almost fanatical devotion to Barack Obama ... I’ll come in again.
How does he figure Climate Change conference will be a serious rebuke? These people come from a scorching hot desert, they are hoping for a change in the weather!
The fact is that anthropogenic warming of the atmosphere is real.
The atmosphere, especially just above ground level, is being warmed artificially. There are at least dozens of ways we warm the air.
One of the largest is the automobile engine. Cool air in, hot air out. Expand that by every type of engine known to man.
Electric engines ? Still put out heat. Home AC units... put out a lot of heat. All types of cooling systems from homes to skyscrapers put out heat. Home Furnaces put out heat. Same applies to heating for large buildings
Then there are the giant heatsinks we have installed everywhere on the planet. Most know them as HIGHWAYS and PARKING LOTS. They help keep it artificially warmer.
The LIE about global warming is that it has anything to do with CO2.
It only has to do with artificial(man made) heat. But.... it’s hard to sell coupons for ‘heat’ escaping into the atmosphere.
It’s hard to sell people on believing they must give up all forms of artificial heat or cooling or parking lots or highways and streets or cars or lawn mowers or trains or semis (or HEMIS).
Even so, we only manage to ‘change’ the ‘weather’ on a local scale (with our artificial heat). We have not lived long enough to to have a historical record of how much minor local weather changes affect long term climate around the planet. So there is really little point to the controversy, except for MONEY.
So... CO2 became the designated sacrificial goat.
Right - threaten ISIS with global warming and watch them flee into the hills to hide out.
I saw some of the press conference and Obama looked like he was on tranquilizers. I suppose its easier to lie your arse off this way.
Doubling down on stupid .... that will show those terrorists! Did the White House Paid Liar write that line or did they have professional stupid write it.
If anyone has had to deal with liberals lately, they all seem to be going insane. We’ve had 2 local liberal TV stations now pull their comment sections after they got bombarded with opposition to the muslim refugees.
CGato
Some statements invite ridicule and laughter, n'est ce pas?
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Obama is insane.
I think that reason has arrived...
If it were anyone else- he would be taken away to a mental institution- he is a danger to all US citizens.
I shutter to think of the damage that Obama can and probably will do to this country and to the citizens of America before January 20, 2017
I bet even ISIS is going WTF?!?
Bomma gonna wax eloquent & talk, talk, talk, talk & tell
them a thing or two.
My auto mechanic is a lib. A few weeks before paris I pointed out the Muzzies invading France. No big deal he said, muzzies are sweet.
He just got his Obama care bill. Sweet muzzies shot up paris. His president is sending them to his neighborhood. :)
He looks like an angry dog now.
WUT?
Hahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.
Is this fing retard joking?
America is finished unless it wrestles the narrative back from this evil sob and his “administration”.
Good luck
GO TRUMP!!!
I watched some of the presser today. I only hope Holland’s translator is saying “what a douche” when Zer0’s talking. As an aside, was our Mooslime in chief mispronouncing Holland name almost the whole time?
Win
I heard the terrorists are already shaking in their boots, some have committed suicide already.
How horrible, wouldn’t it be more humane to just shoot them instead of giving them a “powerful rebuke”?
Seriously, obama no longer appears to even be on the same planet. He’s gone from being criminal to outright insane. He needs to be removed from office before he starts a nuclear war or whatever else an insane President would do.
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