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Obama Reports Significant Progress In Battle Against ISIS, But Admits He Still Has No Complete Strategy
During a press conference at the G7 Summit in Germany, President Obama said that significant progress has been made in pushing back the Islamic State from areas they had occupied, oppressing local populations. He said that ISIS is nimble, aggressive, and opportunistic.
Obama added that one of areas needing improvement is the training of Iraqi forces. He also said that the administration does not have a complete strategy against Islamic State because that requires commitments on the part of the Iraqis as well as how that recruitment takes place.
“We want to get more Iraqi security forces trained, fresh, well equipped, and focused,” Obama said. “We’re reviewing a range of plans for how we might do that, essentially accelerating the number of Iraqi forces that are properly trained and equipped and have a focused strategy and good leadership.”
He said that when the Pentagon has developed a final plan on training Iraqi forces, he would share it with the American people.
It is not clear what “significant progress” the US-led coalition has made in pushing back Islamic State from areas they had occupied.
Over the last two weeks, ISIS has captured two major cities in Syria and Iraq and is on its way to the border with Israel on the Golan Heights. In Libya, ISIS has succeeded in seizing the city of Sirte, the coastal city in which Khadffi sought refuge during the last days of his regime; and it seized neighborhoods of the eastern city of Derna.
The group has also made gains in Gaza, where Islamic State affiliates are now threatening the Hamas regime and launched rockets at southern Israel last week. The organization also controls the Iraqi-Syrian border and the Syrian-Jordanian border.
In addition, Islamic State has started to destabilize Saudi Arabia, where the group staged several suicide attacks on Shiite targets last week.
This post originally appeared on Western Journalism – Equipping You With The Truth
Source: http://www.westernjournalism.com/obama-reports-significant-progress-in-battle-against-isis-but-admits-he-still-has-no-complete-strategy/
