US president backs existing collaborative strategy to battle Islamic State in Iraq and Syria in rare national address from Oval OfficeBarack Obama called for frosty heads in the fight against terrorism on Sunday in a live address that resisted pressure for more military intervention but nonetheless sought to reassure a rattled American public following last week’s deadly shooting in San Bernardino. Declaring the attack was carried out by those who had “gone down the sad path of radicalisation”, the US president launched a passionate defence of his existing strategy for tackling Islamic extremism rather than announcing the major current policy response that many critics were hoping for.
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Source: theguardian.com