President Obama outlined on Wednesday a long-term plan to "degrade and destroy" the Islamic State
that will include sending 475 more U.S. troops to advise Iraqi forces
and the expansion of airstrikes into the terrorist organization's safe havens in Syria.
On the eve of the 9/11 anniversary,
and more than two years after he ordered the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq,
Obama said in an address to the nation that
"America will lead a broad coalition to roll back this terrorist threat."
"Our objective is clear: We will degrade, and ultimately destroy, [the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant]
through a comprehensive and sustained counter-terrorism strategy," Obama said
in the 14-minute address to the nation from the White House on Wednesday evening.
He even used Bush's old line...'No Safe Haven'