We are going to continue the strategy that has the best chance of working," Mr Obama told a news conference. There will be an intensification of the strategy that we put forward but the strategy that we put forward is the strategy that ultimately is going to work
I have heard that politicians speak in circular arguments referencing and justifying their own statements, so what he said here is more of the same thing we have been doing for the past year because that is going to work. In the meantime Daesh, that elusive enemy, has been able to make attacks outside Syria and these policies have seen thousands, perhaps millions of Syrians flee into Europe. A successful strategy if you want to depopulate Syria and repopulate Europe. Just whose strategy is working?