ERBIL, Kurdistan Region –US President Barack Obama said on Wednesday, a day after the Brussels bombing, that fighting ISIS is his "no. 1 priority", and criticized some suggestions made by US Presidential candidates about how to fight Islamic State (ISIS).
“We understand the pain they feel, this really because, our countries as well have known the scourge of terrorism, and we've seen our own citizens impacted by these kinds of senseless vicious violence,” Obama said in a press conference in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires.
“We will also continue to go after ISIL [ISIS] aggressively until it is removed from Syria and removed from Iraq, and is finally destroyed. And we can and we will defeat those who threaten the safety and security not only of our own people but of people all around the world," he added.
"This is my number one priority,” he stressed. ”I've got a lot of things on my plate but my top priority is to defeat ISIL and to eliminate the scourge of this barbaric terrorism that has been taking place around the world.”
Obama described Republican presidential candidates suggestion that the US should “carpet bomb” ISIS positions in Iraq and Syria as “inhumane” arguing “That would likely be an extraordinary mechanism for ISIL to recruit more people willing to die and explode bombs in an airport or in a metro station.”
Obama also emphasized that he will continue his plan in Iraq and Syria as it is and insisted that changing the strategy would imply weakness on the part of the US and its allies in the eyes of their “terrorist” adversary.
Obama called Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel on Tuesday and offered his condolences for the loss of life in his nation’s capital.
“We understand the pain they feel, this really because, our countries as well have known the scourge of terrorism, and we've seen our own citizens impacted by these kinds of senseless vicious violence,” Obama said in a press conference in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires.
“We will also continue to go after ISIL [ISIS] aggressively until it is removed from Syria and removed from Iraq, and is finally destroyed. And we can and we will defeat those who threaten the safety and security not only of our own people but of people all around the world," he added.
"This is my number one priority,” he stressed. ”I've got a lot of things on my plate but my top priority is to defeat ISIL and to eliminate the scourge of this barbaric terrorism that has been taking place around the world.”
Obama described Republican presidential candidates suggestion that the US should “carpet bomb” ISIS positions in Iraq and Syria as “inhumane” arguing “That would likely be an extraordinary mechanism for ISIL to recruit more people willing to die and explode bombs in an airport or in a metro station.”
Obama also emphasized that he will continue his plan in Iraq and Syria as it is and insisted that changing the strategy would imply weakness on the part of the US and its allies in the eyes of their “terrorist” adversary.
Obama called Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel on Tuesday and offered his condolences for the loss of life in his nation’s capital.
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