US President Barack Obama, in a rare prime-time speech designed to reassure a jittery nation, vowed Sunday that America will destroy the Islamic State group and hunt down its followers at home or abro
US President Barack Obama, in a rare prime-time speech designed to reassure a jittery nation, vowed Sunday that America will destroy the Islamic State group and hunt down its followers at home or abroad.
Facing questions about his leadership and strategy, Mr Obama harnessed the highest trappings of the US power to calm a country put on edge by a rampage in California that killed 14 Americans. “After so much war, many Americans are asking whether we are confronted by a cancer that has no immediate cure,” said the President in a solemn address from the Oval Office, adding that the San Bernardino massacre was evidence of an “evolving” and increasingly homegrown threat.
As a father of two, Mr Obama said, he could imagine himself or his kin in San Bernardino or Paris. “Here’s what I want you to know,” he told the country. “The threat from terrorism is real, but we will overcome it. We will destroy ISIS and any other organisation that tries to harm us. Our military will continue to hunt down terrorists in any country necessary.”
