Obama to stick with the status quo concerning ISIS...


"" Three days after teams of Islamic State
terrorists brazenly carried out raids across
Paris that left 129 people dead, President
Obama labeled the slaughter a "setback" in
responding to questions about his policies.
"There will be setbacks and there will be
successes. The terrible events in Paris were
obviously a terrible and sickening setback,"
Obama said Monday.
The president spoke at a contentious and
lengthy press conference on the sidelines of the
G20 summit in Turkey, as he faces tough
criticism from Capitol Hill -- for saying the
morning before the attack that ISIS had been
"contained" in Iraq and Syria, and for
sustaining a military strategy that critics deem
insufficient.
But Obama on Monday stuck by the U.S.
strategy for fighting the terror group while
defending his earlier remarks.
The president said the ultimate goal is to
"degrade and ultimately destroy this barbaric
terrorist organization." But he insisted that the
reason he said they're contained, hours before
terror teams launched deadly raids across
Paris, is because "they control less territory
than they did last year."
Obama stressed that going after ISIS in Iraq
and Syria will help reduce the threat from
foreign fighters, while acknowledging it "will not
be enough to defeat ISIL in Syria and Iraq
alone."
Obama also defended the current strategy --
which involves airstrikes and a limited number
of military advisers on the ground.
"There will be an intensification of the strategy
that we've put forward," he said. "But the
strategy that we are putting forward is the
strategy that ultimately is going to work."
He said, "It will take time." And he insisted that
the U.S. has not "underestimated" the ISIS
threat.
"ISIL leaders will have no safe haven
anywhere," Obama vowed.""
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/11/16/obama-facing-criticism-for-push-to-contain-isis/