Headline Roundup • November 16th, 2015
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President Obama faced some tough questions at the G-20 summit from Antalya, Turkey, Monday as he addressed the tragedy in Paris and how the United States plans to respond.
Have you "underestimated" ISIS' ability? one reporter demanded.
“No, we haven’t,” Obama said. “There has been acute awareness from my administration from the start” regarding the threat, he insisted.
Many would disagree. Mere hours before terrorists murdered 129 people in Paris, Obama said ISIS had been “contained.”
Wall Street Journal (News)
President Barack Obama came into office with a single, driving foreign-policy principle that shaped his approach to international crises: Avoid another protracted war like those in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Friday’s terrorist attacks in Paris, which killed at least 129 people, present Mr. Obama with a fundamental test of whether the approach is sustainable.
With one year in office remaining, the president faces pressure to escalate what is now seen as a global, rather than regional, fight against Islamic State militants, whom France accused of carrying out the attacks. Ho
HuffPost
President Barack Obama says putting large numbers of U.S. troops on the ground to combat the threat from the Islamic State would be "a mistake."
He says that's not just his view, but the view of some of his closest military and civilian advisers.
Obama spoke Monday at a news conference in Antalya, Turkey, at the close of a summit of 20 nations. The talks have been overshadowed by Friday's attacks in Paris that killed at least 129 people.
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