Obama announce coalition to "DESTROY" ISIS...
Obama Campaign is to wipe out ISIS group in Iran, Syria and the rest of the world...
'If you threaten America, you will find no safe haven': Obama vows to destroy ISIS with Syria airstrikes in televised address - but insists there will be 'no boots on the ground'
► Obama brands the 'Islamic State' as 'a terrorist organization, pure and simple'
► 'We will degrade, and ultimately destroy' ISIS 'through a comprehensive and sustained counter-terrorism strategy'
► Four-point plan includes airstrikes, support for Iraqi army units, counter-terrorism activities to hamstring ISIS, and renewed humanitarian aid
► President wants $500 million from Congress to arm Syrian rebels
► 'We have not yet detected specific plotting against our homeland,' he cautioned
► Republicans cast Obama as a Johnnie-come-lately who enabled ISIS with an Iraq troop withdrawal and then crafted a weak plan to defeat them
► 'At ISIL headquarters in Raqqa, Syria, you can hear a sigh of relief,' said one GOP senator
► Academics and war historians chastised Obama for ruling out the use of American ground troops
President Barack Obama will pursue ISIS terrorists in Syria and expand airstrikes in Iraq because 'if you threaten America, you will find no safe haven', he said in a prime-time national address on Wednesday night.
He also pledged that he will not put tens of thousands of American boots on the ground there.
In a four-point plan that he laid out, the Commander-in-Chief announced coming airstrikes in both countries, additional support for Iraqi army units, counter-terrorism activities to hamstring ISIS, and renewed humanitarian aid for victims of ISIS militants.
'This counter-terrorism campaign will be waged through a steady, relentless effort to take out ISIL wherever they exist,' Obama vowed, referring to ISIS by its alternate name, 'using our air power and our support for partner forces on the ground.'
A senior Pentagon official confirmed that 'the U.S. military is ready to conduct direct action against ISIL targets in Syria.'
Despite the end of formal hostilities in Iraq and Afghanistan, Obama said, 'we continue to face a terrorist threat. We cannot erase every trace of evil from the world, and small groups of killers have the capacity to do great harm.'
Republicans immediately cast the speech as long overdue, and the president as a Johnnie-come-lately.
