U.S. President Barack Obama delivered a decisive speech on Wednesday, and in fact, declared a war on the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), thereby breaking the idea of the indecisive and impotent foreign policy of his administration, reports GHN based on Ukrinform.
The president made a statement late on Wednesday.
"Our objective is clear: We will degrade, and ultimately destroy, ISIL through a comprehensive and sustained counterterrorism strategy," Obama said.
He said that this counterterrorism campaign would be waged through a steady, relentless effort to take out ISIL wherever they exist.
The declared strategy foresees four areas, in particular, a systematic campaign of airstrikes against ISIL, the deployment of an additional 475 service members to Iraq to assist Iraqi forces and strengthen military support for the Syrian opposition, the application of preventive measures - economic, intelligence and military - to prevent terrorist attacks, and humanitarian support for the affected civilian population.
Obama said that this strategy differs from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, in which Americans were engaged. "This strategy of taking out terrorists who threaten us, while supporting partners on the front lines, is one that we have successfully pursued in Yemen and Somalia for years," he said.
He said that abroad, American leadership was the one constant in an uncertain world. " It is America that has the capacity and the will to mobilize the world against terrorists. It is America that has rallied the world against Russian aggression, and in support of the Ukrainian peoples' right to determine their own destiny... And it is America that is helping Muslim communities around the world not just in the fight against terrorism, but in the fight for opportunity, and tolerance, and a more hopeful future," Obama said.