TYT: Obama: ISIS Wants To Kill US Ground Troops. Don't Take The Bait.

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President Obama gave a rare Oval Office speech over the weekend. He talked about the threat of ISIL and what we should do. Cenk Uygur, host of the The Young Turks, breaks it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.

"President Barack Obama on Sunday laid out the most sweeping defense yet of his strategy to defeat Islamic State, but he offered no U.S. policy shift to confront what he called a "new phase" in the terrorist threat after a mass shooting in California.

In a rare Oval Office address, Obama sought to calm a U.S. public increasingly jittery about the fight against Islamist militancy that once appeared to be waged overseas. His remarks failed to quiet Republican critics who have long accused him of underestimating the militants' strength and staying power.

Speaking in a measured tone, Obama used his 14-minute nationally televised appearance to draw a careful line about what he would and would not do. He pledged, for example, to "hunt down terrorist plotters" anywhere they are. But he insisted: "We should not be drawn once more into a long and costly ground war in Iraq or Syria."

Obama spoke just four days after U.S.-born Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and his Pakistani wife, Tashfeen Malik, 29, opened fire on a holiday party for civil servants in San Bernardino, California, killing 14 people. The pair were killed hours later in a shootout with police.

Obama condemned the attack as "an act of terrorism designed to kill innocent people." But he also said San Bernardino showed that "the terrorist threat has evolved into a new phase" as Islamic State used the Internet to "poison the minds" of potential assailants.

Obama also made a connection between national security and the need for gun control following America's latest mass shooting.”*

Read more here: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-california-shooting-idUSKBN0TP0RO20151207#SLZVqOwzk0QEU6kj.97

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1. R&K for a great Cenk analysis. nt

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2. Malik left Pakistan to be educated in Arabia; easy prey for Wahhabist. She went back home.

IMO, she kept her radical Islamic religion in practice by Wahhabist mission sites; apparently one in Pakistan near her home. Then kept in practice through the internet when she came to America. Who arranged this marriage? I believe that the Wahhabist missionary clerics buildings in the Levant, have finally been bombed. Sunni Wahhabist did destroy the Iraqi cultural artifacts, as a statement that Sunni soldiers have a new allegiance through Wahhabism. This alliance is spreading through the internet.

Shiite Syrian refuges decided against Wahhabism and left. They were unable to get to the (Shiite) Islamic Republic or Iran.

I believe that our greatest threat from Islam is that any Muslim can go on a Jihad and suspend the Koran anytime they see fit to follow a cleric's decision.