Addressing ISIS Threat with U.N.
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Obama at UN: "The Only Language Understood" by ISIL Terrorists is "the Language of Force”
On Tuesday, President Obama delivered his annual message to the United Nations in New York City.
Among other things, he addressed growing fears of Russian corruption and aggression, the dramatic rise of ISIS, and the importance of Muslim leaders publicly and forcefully rejecting extremism.
“I often tell young people in the United States that despite the headlines this is the best time in human history to be born,” he began. “Today you are more likely than ever to be literate, healthy and free to pursue your dreams."
“And yet,” he...
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Obama Addresses Islamic State Threat in United Nations Speech
President Barack Obama implored world leaders to unite against a series of international crises—from the rise of militant group Islamic State, which he called "a network of death," to the Ebola epidemic in West Africa and Russia's intervention in Ukraine.
Mr. Obama, in his annual address to the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday, cited "the cancer of violent extremism" in the Middle East as the single issue that could derail future global progress, and said six years into his presidency that the world is at a crossroads. He specifically...
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Obama seeks to sell the public on a war he never imagined he would pursue
Striding onto the South Lawn on a cool, sunny Washington morning, President Obama stepped to a lectern hastily set up in front of Marine One and took all of three minutes to announce that a new war in Syria had begun Then he boarded the helicopter on his way to New York for a global summit.
Rhetorical shock and awe, this was not.
Before departing, Obama dryly read off a list of actions taken to expand the campaign against rad
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