Posted on 10/01/2014 9:03:54 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
President Obama met Tuesday evening with his national security team amid reports that the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) was advancing toward toward the predominantly Kurdish town of Kobani on the border between Turkey and Syria.
The president and his top foreign policy aides met at the White House on Tuesday "to discuss our comprehensive strategy to counter the threat posed by [ISIS]," the administration said in a statement.
The meeting came as CNN reported that Turkish soldiers and tanks were massing at the border amid concerns about a flood of refugees entering the country ahead of advancing ISIS fighters. Sources told the network that ISIS fighters were within three kilometers of the northern Syria town late Monday. The Pentagon announced earlier Tuesday that U.S. airstrikes had targeted ISIS positions near Kobani as the U.S. looks to keep the terror network from advancing all the way to the Turkish border.
Separately, Britain's Royal Air Force completed its first airstrikes against ISIS targets within Iraq on Tuesday. The jets destroyed an ISIS arsenal and vehicle with a mounted machine gun in a bid to assist Kurdish troops operating in northwest Iraq.
Deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes said the U.S. welcomed the first U.K. airstrikes in a post to Twitter.
But the latest round of fighting near Kobani — along with intense fighting on the outskirts of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad — has raised new questions about the efficacy of the U.S. strategy to counter ISIS.
White House senior adviser Dan Pfieffer told CNN on Tuesday that Obama has "said from the beginning, this is going to take some time."
"This is a long-term effort. We have made progress," Pfeiffer said. "The Pentagon believes the airstrikes we've taken have been effective, but it's going to take some time."
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unlike STUPID in the white hosue, Turkey defends its border...
if we know isis is advancing and massing ISINT IT THE PERFECT TIMETO BOMB THEM HEAVILY .... guess dumbo didnt read the intel report again... obama has done more to support terrorists groups including the muslim brotherhood, al queda and isis than bin laden did. he is our benedict arnold and a TRAITOR...
Not anymore. Turkey is extremely Islamist, and Erdogan is thought to be a covert supporter of ISIS. The only difference is that he feels that the caliphate should be in Turkey (revival of the Ottoman Empire) rather than in Baghdad.
This may be the issue that divides them. In the meantime, Turkey, as a NATO member, has an abundance of US weaponry and know-how and believe me, it plans to use it...to defeat the West.
An attack on turkey is an attack on Nato. Like attacking Germany. Or poland. Or France. Watch the final crusade begin.
Regarding photo of B. Hussein invoking Al
Yup.
(Invoking Satan, actually.)
Whoops.
“President Obama met Tuesday evening with his national security team”
I hope his security team wore name tags so that obama could know who they were.
Based on reports last night, they have the city surrounded and cut off. It may fall at any time...
None in the inventory.
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