The Times quoted a senior administration official, while the Post cited foreign policy experts who have spoken to Obama in recent days. It remained unclear whether Obama would also use the address on the ceremonial state floor of the White House - where he announced the success of a US operation to kill Osama bin Laden - to signal an expansion of US airstrikes against IS from Iraq into Syria.īut the New York Times and the Washington Post said late Tuesday that Obama is in fact prepared to authorize air strikes in Syria.
But mindful of avoiding what he believes are the mistakes of the last decade, Obama will assure millions of television viewers that he will not send conventional ground troops back to Iraq to fight a group that has beheaded two US journalists.
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