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CNN international correspondent Christiane Amanpour blasted President Obama’s speech at the G-20 conference on Monday suggesting “people do not believe” that ISIS is “contained.” (RELATED: Obama: ISIS Not Gaining Strength [VIDEO])
Appearing on CNN Newsroom on Monday, Amanpour argued, “Well if anybody was expecting to hear in the passion and eloquence and speech patterns of President Obama a tipping point, they did not hear that today.” (RELATED: Obama Takes Harsher Tone With Republicans Than ISIS At G20 [VIDEO])
“And as you say, defensive when he was asked questions about American leadership, dismissing the notions of American leadership as mere slogans, seeming not to take into account the very palpable fear amongst citizens, certainly here in France, to an extent in the United States, certainly in the United Kingdom, everybody bracing for the worst of the worst to happen again,” said Amanpour.
“He said something that was pretty incredible, according to many of the military experts here and around the world who I’ve spoken to, that our strategy is working,” suggested Amanpour. “People do not believe that to be the case. The only strategy that’s working is the strategy that he tends to dismiss and that’s the ground troop strategy.”
“Sinjar, Tikrit, Kobani, those are the only ISIS strongholds that have been taken back by a combination of American intelligence and air power and local ground forces. Whether they’re Iranian-backed militia in Tikrit, whether Kurdish Peshmerga and other Kurdish forces in Sinjar and in Kobani. This is a fact,” insisted Amanpour. (RELATED: CNN Reporter To Obama: ‘Why Can’t We Take Out These Bastards?’ [VIDEO])
“He’s saying that ISIS is contained. This also is not actually true,” explained Amanpour. “ISIS is not contained because ISIS attacked a Russian plane, attacked Beirut, and has now attacked here. And military strategists say the length of time between the ISIS attack on ‘Charlie Hebdo’ and the al Qaeda, of course, ‘Charlie Hebdo’ and the market and here, ten months is strategically insignificant. That is no time at all. That means they are not contained.” (RELATED: Sen. Feinstein: ‘ISIL Is Not Contained. ISIL Is Expanding’ [VIDEO])