The United States has been “under serious threat” from terrorists during his entire presidency, President Barack Obama says.
In an interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos aired Sunday on “This Week,” the president highlighted the growing fears that those trained in Middle East terrorist cells can go back to Europe or the United States to execute an attack.
“They’re gaining strength in some places. We’ve seen Europeans who are sympathetic to [the terrorist] cause traveling into Syria, and now may travel into Iraq, getting battle-hardened. Then they come back, they have European passports, they don’t need a visa to get into the United States,” Obama said. “We’re spending a lot of time, and we have been for years, making sure that we are improving intelligence so we can respond to that.”
The United States needs to continue to improve intelligence and reconnaissance to sniff out threats, the president said, and he isn’t ruling out doing even more.
“There are going to be times where we take strikes against the organizations that can do us harm,” Obama said.
Hawkish Republican Rep. Peter King of New York said Obama should do even more and pressed the president to be “really aggressive” in combating terrorists trained overseas.
“Any of these people can come back to the United States and carry out the type of attack that they’ve been trained on in Syria,” King said on the same show.
When do left wingers catch on?
Didn’t NY have to quit ”spying” on the extremists as they recruit terrorists in NY mosques?
How is this, ” doing more?”
What we need is exactly what Obama is against: more spying on Muslim gatherings.
Obama won’t even call these terrorists “Muslim,” or “Islamist.”
For all we know Obama is wasting money spying on TEA party contributors and veterans.
His open border means Muslim terrorists do not even have to come BACK after fighting jihad elsewhere, they can come here from foreign countries.
Obama’s NSA spying is exactly what we don’t need: the WIDE net that sees so much it catches nothing.
We need a targeting of those who might be terrorists, we also need closed and secured borders: all of them.
All Obama did on TV was ”words, just words,”……the same words, just words as he stole from Deval Patrick years ago.
An American citizen was just killed by Obama’s buddies, Hamas.
Eyal Yifrach, 19; Gilad Shaar, 16 and Naftali Frenkel, 16, one with U.S. citizenshiphad been kidnapped in Israel by Hamas.
Their bodies have just been found.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/06/30/bodies-israeli-kidnapped-teens-found-government-confirms/
Will Obama side with Hamas that Israel should now stop going after Hamas since the boys dead bodies are found?
He probably will.
Obama arms Hamas despite disapproval by 88 Senators (must be more than a few Dems in there, huh.)
http://www.redstate.com/diary/matthewclark/2014/06/13/88-senators-gravely-concerned-obama-administration-funding-hamas-terrorist-led-palestinian-government/