Before being the president s special envoy many of you know he took on the small challenge of trying to help lead the middle east Peace Process for two years working back and forth between the israelis and palestinians in helping with what was a pure like efforts to move forward towards the two state solution in hes been the commander of centcom and is somebody that applies a great deal of thought and reflection to help America Needs to handle its most ethical challenges. And most importantly and i have seen in in this capacity wearing the uniform and out of the uniform, he understands the challenges we face are never strictly military, they are always political and always complex. We could have no better person to bring to this task to try to figure out what are all the pieces of the puzzle countering the threat posed to the country that it is correctly decimating in the racing borders to the region in how we can get a solution that isnt going to rely just on a military force by us an
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Two outcomes, to be killed by defenders or coalition air. Recent activities rendered very clear messages. There are places within the infrastructure where the morale is not good. As we begin to strangle the itenses, the finances, becomes more difficult to payain their operations and fighters. That will create additional problems. General allen now serves as a special president ial envoy for the coalition to counter isis. You can watch the presentation at 8 00 p. M. When the senate takes its august break, we will feature book tv programming weeknights and prime time. At the end of the summer, look for two look tv programs. Programs. We are live from the National Book festival. Followed by an event with lynne cheney. Book tv. Television for serious readers. White housetodays briefing with press secretary josh earnest. Ernest lets go to your questions. The meeting the president is having, i am wondering if the timing was arranged so his meeting would follow the israeli Prime Ministers web
And countering the flow of foreign fighters and countering messages and we can build on current or local efforts being taken to counter daesh affiliates locally around the world. We must not forget that daeshs lit frp ledge legitimaty is tied to a caliphate with specific geography. This means our overarching objective must not be just countering daesh around the world but bearing down hard encore daesh in iraq and syria and squeezing and degrading and daesh there in its core makes it much more difficult for an affiliation to stand alone beyond the boundaries of the iraqsyria region. So as a coalition we cannot eliminate every rivalry, whether between nations or different faiths or those who hold power and historical grievances, one against another. But in coordinating the global effort to counter daesh, in championing muteure interest and respect over our many differences, we can and we have changed assumptions about how nations can come together to fight one of the great challenges of
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