Obama: ISIS not growing, but not 'decapitated'

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Obama: ISIS not growing, but not 'decapitated'

Fri November 13, 2015

Washington (CNN)President Barack Obama said that the U.S. strategy against ISIS has "contained them," but not yet succeeded in its effort to "decapitate" ISIS leadership.

"I don't think they're gaining strength," Obama told ABC's George Stephanopoulos on Thursday for an interview that aired Friday morning. "What is true, from the start our goal has been first to contain and we have contained them. They have not gained ground in Iraq and in Syria. They'll come in. They'll leave. But you don't see this systemic march by ISIL across the terrain. What we have not yet been able to do is to completely decapitate their command and control structures. We've made some progress in trying to reduce the flow of foreign fighters."

Obama has been apprehensive about engaging U.S. ground forces in another struggle in the Middle East, after extensive wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. But he announced two weeks ago that a small group of less than 50 U.S. special ops soldiers would go to Syria to bolster rebel forces there in the fight against ISIS.

Meanwhile, Kurdish Peshmerga fighters launched an attack, with U.S. support, Thursday on a key ISIS supply line in Sinjar, Iraq. Coalition forces declared the Iraqi city free of ISIS control Friday morning.

The U.S. also conducted a drone airstrike targeted at "Jihadi John" Thursday, but it was still not clear Friday whether the subject of multiple gruesome beheading videos was killed.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/13/politics/obama-isis-contained-decapitated-abc-news/

We've made some progress in trying to reduce the flow of foreign fighters."

Most of them are on a European vacation ....... as we just saw in Paris

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Obama: ISIS not growing, but not 'decapitated'

Fri November 13, 2015

Washington (CNN)President Barack Obama said that the U.S. strategy against ISIS has "contained them," but not yet succeeded in its effort to "decapitate" ISIS leadership.

"I don't think they're gaining strength," Obama told ABC's George Stephanopoulos on Thursday for an interview that aired Friday morning. "What is true, from the start our goal has been first to contain and we have contained them. They have not gained ground in Iraq and in Syria. They'll come in. They'll leave. But you don't see this systemic march by ISIL across the terrain. What we have not yet been able to do is to completely decapitate their command and control structures. We've made some progress in trying to reduce the flow of foreign fighters."

Obama has been apprehensive about engaging U.S. ground forces in another struggle in the Middle East, after extensive wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. But he announced two weeks ago that a small group of less than 50 U.S. special ops soldiers would go to Syria to bolster rebel forces there in the fight against ISIS.

Meanwhile, Kurdish Peshmerga fighters launched an attack, with U.S. support, Thursday on a key ISIS supply line in Sinjar, Iraq. Coalition forces declared the Iraqi city free of ISIS control Friday morning.

The U.S. also conducted a drone airstrike targeted at "Jihadi John" Thursday, but it was still not clear Friday whether the subject of multiple gruesome beheading videos was killed.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/13/politics/obama-isis-contained-decapitated-abc-news/

We've made some progress in trying to reduce the flow of foreign fighters."

Most of them are on a European vacation ....... as we just saw in Paris

Oh yes Obumer is trying to contain about 10000 of them right here in the US. What a complete fool he is.

Can you imagine the press feeding frenzy if a conservative President had said this right before one of the biggest terror attacks ever

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They're contained. You two just haven't said it enough times to start believing it. They're contained. Yes. Contained.