Obama, Hollande meet, vow to end ISIS

Still smarting from the recent attacks on Paris by terrorists, French President François Hollande and U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday vowed to intensify their nations’ military attacks on ISIS in Syria and Iraq.
The duo at a White House meeting agreed that the attacks lent urgency and deep symbolic significance that opened a new phase of the war on terror.
Even before the attacks, France, as the only European nation joining the United States in striking ISIS in Syria, and after several anti-terror operations in Africa in which the two nations cooperated, had emerged as the closest U.S. transatlantic military ally.

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And the solidarity on show between Obama and Hollande during an hour-long press conference in the East Room of the White House made clear that the U.S.-France diplomatic relationship is tighter than ever — even if Obama doesn’t plan to greatly change his strategy or work with Russia to battle the terror group, as France has called for, unless Russia confines its attacks to ISIS.
Despite some divergence in the two leaders’ ideas for how best to battle ISIS, Tuesday’s press conference seemed to be a deliberate show of unity and exchange of rhetorical support between the presidents at a time of international disruption and global terror.

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