(MENAFN- Khaleej Times) Obama said he was confident he would be able to build a broad-based international coalition to take on ISIS which has carved out a stronghold in Syria and Iraq.
US President Barack Obama says he will make a speech Wednesday to lay out his “game plan” to deal with and ultimately defeat the ISIS but warned he was not going to wage another ground war in Iraq.
“I’m preparing the country to make sure that we deal with a threat from ISIL” Obama said in an interview aired Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” using an alternative name for the militant group.
“On Wednesday I’ll make a speech and describe what our game plan’s going to be going forward” Obama said in the interview in which he gave his most explicit rundown yet of his strategy for taking on ISIS.
Two days after returning from the NATO summit in Wales Obama said he was confident he would be able to build a broad-based international coalition to take on ISIS which has carved out a stronghold in large areas of Syria and Iraq.
“But this is not going to be an announcement about US ground troops.
“This is not the equivalent of the Iraq war. What this is is similar to the kinds of counterterrorism campaigns that we’ve been engaging in consistently over the last five six seven years.” For more news from Khaleej Times follow us on Facebook at facebook.com/khaleejtimes and on Twitter at khaleejtimes Follow khaleejtimes ->
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