Nearly six years into a presidency devoted to ending wars, President
Obama on Wednesday announced he is launching a new global war against
the ultra-violent al Qaeda terror group known as the Islamic State.
The president’s new strategy of conducting U.S. airstrikes combined with foreign military ground operations against IS in Iraq and Syria, however, will be limited to the terror group, and lacks what analysts say is a broader ideological offensive against Islamist terror of all stripes.
The president, in an Oval Office speech, dismissed the prospect of launching a Cold War-style ideological counter to Islamist terror, asserting IS is not “Islamic” because “no religion condones the killing of innocents.”
However, the IS, also known as ISIL and ISIS, asserts it is not only Islamic but touts itself and its ideology as the sole legitimate leader of the world’s Muslims. And few Muslims around the world have denounced the group and its jihad.
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/obama-goes-to-war/
The president’s new strategy of conducting U.S. airstrikes combined with foreign military ground operations against IS in Iraq and Syria, however, will be limited to the terror group, and lacks what analysts say is a broader ideological offensive against Islamist terror of all stripes.
The president, in an Oval Office speech, dismissed the prospect of launching a Cold War-style ideological counter to Islamist terror, asserting IS is not “Islamic” because “no religion condones the killing of innocents.”
However, the IS, also known as ISIL and ISIS, asserts it is not only Islamic but touts itself and its ideology as the sole legitimate leader of the world’s Muslims. And few Muslims around the world have denounced the group and its jihad.
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/obama-goes-to-war/
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