The war on iraq. That one was arguable from the start. But believe in it or not we did it. Though we needed to end it, we needed to end it right. Our generals in the field urged president obama to keep nearly 30,000 troops in iraq to preserve the gains we had made. The president ultimately left not a single soldier there. And the terror group isis grew like a cancer. They have now established the equivalent of their own country. Our defense secretary says they compare to nothing we have ever seen. Weeks ago president obama said he had no strategy for defeating this group until his poll numbers plummeted. And then last night the man who says he was elected to end wars seemed to announce he was starting a new one. As commander in chief, my highest priority is the security of the American People. Our objective is clear. We will degrade and ultimately destroy isil. First, we will conduct a Systematic Campaign of air strikes against these terrorists. Second, we will increase our support to
The war on iraq. That one was arguable from the start. But believe in it or not we did it. Though we needed to end it, we needed to end it right. Our generals in the field urged president obama to keep nearly 30,000 troops in iraq to preserve the gains we had made. The president ultimately left not a single soldier there. And the terror group isis grew like a cancer. They have now established the equivalent of their own country. Our defense secretary says they compare to nothing we have ever seen. Weeks ago president obama said he had no strategy for defeating this group until his poll numbers plummeted. And then last night the man who says he was elected to end wars seemed to announce he was starting a new one. As commander in chief, my highest priority is the security of the American People. Our objective is clear. We will degrade and ultimately destroy isil. First, we will conduct a Systematic Campaign of air strikes against these terrorists. Second, we will increase our support to
Harr harrisperry. Pain, agony, suffering hurt. Our nation is full of pain, pain thats been giving voice most recently in ferguson, missouri. The specific pain of parents who have lost a child, and now know that the Police Officer who killed him will not face criminal charges, the pain of communities who feel helpless in the face of a system that brings so little justice, a system that seems to supply fresh trama weekly adding names to the list of unarmed boys and men whose death is justified by whom to have been afreud of them, oscar, trayvon, john, michael, tamier. This is where i want to pause for a minute, this issue of black mens pain because americans long have had difficulty in understanding, acknowledging and having empathy for the pain of black men. For much of our history, black men have been represented as mergeless brutes, brett tors that can strike without warning at any moment. At the turn of the 20th century, george t. Winston the president of North Carolina college offin