{"id":455,"date":"2015-12-03T13:04:55","date_gmt":"2015-12-03T18:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/introintlrelations\/?p=455"},"modified":"2015-12-03T13:04:55","modified_gmt":"2015-12-03T18:04:55","slug":"u-s-safe-from-paris-style-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/introintlrelations\/2015\/12\/03\/u-s-safe-from-paris-style-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. &#8220;safe&#8221; from &#8216;Paris-style&#8217; attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2015\/12\/03\/politics\/barack-obama-isis\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">interview<\/a> on Thursday, December 3rd, Obama announced his confidence regarding the United States&#8217; safety against potential ISIS attacks. As the high holidays are approaching, the American law enforcement have become more equipped to ensure safety around the nation.\u00a0President Obama reassures our safety, claiming ISIS will be a threat, if Americans react in fear.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;ISIL will not pose an existential threat to us. They are a dangerous organization like al Qaeda was, but we have hardened our defenses,&#8221; -President Barack Obama<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>American troops deployed to\u00a0Syria is just another topic that President Obama needed to touch upon,\u00a0a <em>second<\/em> time<em>.\u00a0<\/em>Obama told CBS, there would be &#8220;no [American] boots on the ground&#8221; in the battle\u00a0against ISIS. As most US citizens comprehended the statement\u00a0with its literal meaning, Barack thought\u00a0Americans understood him\u00a0to mean no\u00a0&#8220;battalions&#8221; will be sent to fight ISIS. In an attempt to train and assist rebel forces against ISIS, Barack authorized &#8220;less than 50 special forces.&#8221; Nobody likes to question the credibility of the President, but maybe he should communicate more clearly to his constituents. What do you guys think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview on Thursday, December 3rd, Obama announced his confidence regarding the United States&#8217; safety against potential ISIS attacks. As the high holidays are approaching, the American law enforcement have become more equipped to ensure safety around the nation.\u00a0President Obama reassures our safety, claiming ISIS will be a threat, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2436,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29790,15238,31572],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fall-2015","category-middle-east","category-world-leaders","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/introintlrelations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/introintlrelations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/introintlrelations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/introintlrelations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2436"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/introintlrelations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/introintlrelations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/introintlrelations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/introintlrelations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/introintlrelations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}