If you didn’t know what ISIS was when listening to our president say that ISIS could be a “manageable problem” if the international community could only come together, you probably wouldn’t guess it’s an Islamic terrorist group beheading people and wreaking havoc in Iraq and Syria. You also probably wouldn’t guess that this group just called out Obama in a second message to America while beheading a second American journalist.
But apparently that’s how our president thinks of this blood thirsty Islamic jihadist group that loves death. And this is how he responds to them calling him out yesterday and beheading a second American journalist.
“We know that if we are joined by the international community, we can continue to shrink ISILl’s sphere of influence, its effectiveness, its financing, its military capabilities to the point where it is a manageable problem,” said Obama.
“And the question is going to be making sure we’ve got the right strategy but also making sure we’ve got the international will to do it. This is something that is a continuation of a problem we’ve seen certainly since 9/11, but before and it continues to metastasize in different ways. And what we’ve got to do is make sure that we are organizing the Arab world, the Middle East, the Muslim world, along with the international community to isolate this cancer.
“This particular brand of extremism that is first and foremost destructive to the Muslim world and the Arab World and North Africa and the people who live there. They’re the ones who are most severely affected. They’re the ones who are constantly under threat of being killed. They’re the ones whose economies are completely upended to the point where they can’t produce their own food and they can’t produce the kinds of goods and services to sell in the world marketplace.
“And they’re falling behind because of this very small and narrow but very dangerous segment of the population. And we’ve got to combat it in a sustained, effective way. And I’m confident we’re going to be able to do that.”
(via Weekly Standard)