US President Obama gave a press conference in Turkey and was confronted with a number of questions concerning US strategy against the Islamic State. He defended his decision not to send ground troops into the Syrian civil war and offered a succinct statement of the problem of dealing with terrorism:
But understand that one of the challenges we have in this situation is, is that if you have a handful of people who don’t mind dying, they can kill a lot of people. That’s one of the challenges of terrorism. It’s not their sophistication or the particular weapon that they possess, but it is the ideology that they carry with them and their willingness to die. And in those circumstances, tracking each individual, making sure that we are disrupting and preventing these attacks is a constant effort at vigilance, and requires extraordinary coordination.
Indeed, such a task is impossible. The real question facing the world right now is whether it can accommodate the threat posed by this relatively small group of individuals without sacrificing liberties or humanity.
This year’s el Niño is proving to be one of the strongest ever recorded, and according to the World Meteorological Organization “its effects are already being seen in Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Malawi, Indonesia and across Central America.” The most immediate problem is food shortages, but both an excess and a dearth of rainfall is having sharp effects throughout the planet. Many of the states affected are already precarious and the human tragedy we might be facing over the next few months could be overwhelming.
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Like the majority of the free world I was dismayed by President Obama’s press conference. I was embarrassed for our country to be led by such an incompetent person. Based on his entire conference this is what you decided to write about and the question you believe we are asking ourselves. That is even more shocking. Joel Brown
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