WEEKLY ADDRESS: Degrading and Destroying ISIL

[cal04]

Source: White House

In this week’s address, President Obama discussed the global campaign to degrade and destroy ISIL. The President stated that our coalition of 66 partners continues to grow stronger and is making vital progress in the fight against ISIL in Iraq and Syria. President Obama also noted that at home we will continue to stay vigilant. At the same time, we’ll keep working to build partnerships of trust and respect with communities to help them stay strong and resilient. The President reiterated that although the fight against ISIL will remain difficult, we will prevail – and ultimately destroy ISIL.

Read more: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/weekly-address

[Fantastic Anarchist]

1. Stop giving them money and weapons!

[Liberty Sage]

2. ISIL or ISIS

Does anyone know the difference?

[BumRushDaShow]

3. Thanks for your weekly posting!

Definitely not a subject that many of us want to even think about or deal with given what precipitated these groups but it is what it is.

[cal04]

5. Hi BumRushDaShow

you're very welcome

[yourpaljoey]

4. Let us thank Russia for making progress on that front

[newthinking]

6. Yep, progress has only come as a result of Russia's actions

Our MIC was content to allow ISIS and Al-Qaida (Al-Nusra) to continue to take territory until they captured Assad (and took the rest of Syria with it).

Now the cat is out of the bag and we have been forced to actually work to destroy ISIS.

Maybe a "Multi-Polar" world is not turning out to be such a bad thing after all. Keeps folks honest.