WASHINGTON — Admiral Obama will put advanced his action for adjoin Islamic State militants this week, affair with aldermanic leaders Tuesday and giving a televised abode Wednesday.
"This is not activity to be an advertisement about U.S. arena troops. This is not the agnate of the Iraq War," he said on NBC's Meet the Press Sunday. "What this is is agnate to the kinds of counterterrorism campaigns that we've been agreeable in consistently over the aftermost five, six, seven years."
Obama gave few capacity on his "game plan," added than to say the United States would "start going on some offense" adjoin the Islamic active group, additionally referred to by the acronyms ISIL (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) or ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria).
His animadversion came as the aggressive broadcast its airstrikes in western Iraq against Islamic State targets about the Haditha Dam. Previous airstrikes had been concentrated about the Mosul Dam, 170 afar to the north.
Obama said the United States would be allotment of an all-embracing affiliation acknowledging Iraqi and Kurdish arena troops "so that they can alpha retaking area that ISIL had taken over."
Republicans in Congress said Obama's animadversion Sunday were a acceptable aboriginal step, but he needs to be clearer back he addresses the nation Wednesday.
"First of all, he needs to accede the botheration of ISIS. There's been some abashing advancing out of the administration. This is the toughest allocution that we accept heard from the president," House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers, R-Mich., said on CNN's State of the Union. "That's a acceptable thing, because they are a threat."
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., said Obama should accept accustomed the accent months ago. "He needs to acutely outline what we're activity to do about it, and I achievement that will accommodate a abiding air attack involving every aspect of our air power, targeting their accumulation lines, targeting their command and ascendancy structure," he said on CBS' Face the Nation.
That includes airstrikes in Syria, Rubio said. "If you're austere about acquisition ISIL, you accept to go afterwards area they're headquartered."
Obama did not aphorism that out. "The action both for Iraq and for Syria is that we will coursing bottomward ISIL associates and assets wherever they are," he said. He afresh emphasized that the accomplishment would not absorb cogent U.S. arena forces. In Syria, he said, "the boots on the arena accept to be Syrian."
Obama said he accomplished Secretary of State John Kerry to the arena this anniversary to accommodated with Sunni-majority Persian Gulf states who are alpha to see Sunni extremists such as the Islamic State as a threat. Those countries, including Saudi Arabia, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates and Turkey, charge to help cultivate a "moderate Sunni opposition" in Syria.
Obama said he wants aldermanic abutment for his accomplishments in the region, but he chock-full abbreviate of adage he would ask Congress to vote to accredit a broader campaign.
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