Air strikes in Syria, training for local fighters, international alliances: U.S. President Barack Obama has finally presented its strategy against the terrorist militias of the “Islamic State”. Can it work ?

The real evil is what caused speechless horror. So it has Hannah Arendt said. Last night it was now the US-President, with a view to murdering in Iraq and Syria terror gangs of the “Islamic State” (IS) to find not only words, but to present a strategy.

Denis “weaken and ultimately destroy”, that was the goal, Obama said in a speech to the nation, the tenth of his term. Does America moves into a new anti-terror fight. This was announced by the President just a day before the 13th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Specifically, Obama’s plan looks like this:

* Expansion of U.S. air strikes on Syria in the future. He would “not hesitate” to attack the IS-terrorist militias both in Iraq and in Syria, Obama said. This gives the U.S. commitment to the region a new dimension, because the President had braced for three years against the pull of Syrian civil war.

* Obama sends 475 more U.S. troops to Iraq to train there, Kurdish and Iraqi forces, equip and advise. The number of beorderten in Iraq U.S. soldiers rises to around 1600th

* U.S. ground troops with combat mission includes Obama: “We can not ourselves be drawn into a new war on the ground.”

* For air attacks Obama does not need congressional approval; but he appealed to the parliamentarians to release the budget for the equipment and the training of moderate Syrian             rebels. It involves the comprehensive five billion dollars Counter-Terrorism Fund, which he had announced some months ago; 500 million of which will be allocated to the Syrian            opposition.

* Obama will go before an international alliance in the fight against the jihadists, “a broad-based coalition,” as he says on military, diplomatic, economic level. The Iraqis turn had an         inclusive government formed in the last few days, he had demanded. “So I can now announce that America will lead a coalition to push back these terrorist threat.”

* About the partners of this alliance, Obama said Wednesday little, but should probably Turkey, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates including in each case, the UK, France,         Germany, Italy, Poland, Denmark, Canada, Australia, Jordan,. Especially the Turks and Saudis is allotted a central role to play in border security and financial support to the                 moderate Syrian rebels. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, as it announced Obama, travel to Europe and the Middle East in order to gain further partners: “This is the best                   possible U.S. Leadership.”

* Obama announced a long struggle; one that will outlast his presidency well: “It takes time to eliminate a cancer, such as the IS.”

* Unanswered the question remains as to prevent Syria’s dictator Assad benefited when the United States attack the common enemy IS.

Obama has long hesitated before he gave this speech to the nation. Moreover, he wanted for months probably not admit that the United States out of the Middle East crisis region can hardly hold out – after a decade of grueling wars in Iraq (absurd, illegal under international law) and in Afghanistan (more or less lost).

In an interview with the “New Yorker” he spoke in January emanating from the IS and other groups danger small: “There is a difference between the capabilities and reach of an Osama bin Laden against our country – and jihadists, local in various struggles for power struggle. “The beheading of two American journalists by IS militia in August, and the possible terrorist threat to America has changed the calculation Obama. He has the approval of the Americans, it seems: Almost three-quarters support the air strikes in Iraq, two-thirds of the possible in Syria. This is more than twice as much as a year ago, when it became known that in Syria Poison gas was used.

At the time, Obama gave his last speech to the nation. It was the speech in which he announced the air strikes against the Assad regime, but then did not export. Obama then said, “I have spent the last four and a half years used it to end wars – and not to start new wars.” That is still true. Even after his speech last night. Obama wants to be the President of the retreat, the Restraint. “We can not wipe out all the evil in the world,” he said. America he sees clearly rather than firefighters, because as the world’s policeman. From War in no way are to be addressed. Obama strives previously classified more than 150 air strikes in Iraq, the future of Syria and the target Alliance of IS-opponents in his previous anti-terror fight: So you’ve already successfully operates all the year, such as in Yemen or in Somalia.

Obama is the man of the Shadow War. Air strikes, drones, Special Forces. Just last week, the Americans reported that Ahmed Abdi Godane Death of, the leader of the Islamist al-Shabab militia, killed in a U.S. air strike in Somalia. Obama mentioned the significantly in the first few minutes of his speech. Under no circumstances, the President will be forced into an us-versus-the-scheme: the United States against the evil of the world. A global, unilateral war on terror à la George W. Bush does not want to lead Obama. Significantly, Obama makes at the end of his speech on optimism, actually speaks of strong U.S. economic strength and jobs.

For him it is just more to nation-building at home than to military involvement in faraway places.

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