Washington, Dec 7 () -  U.S. President Barack Obama wowed America will destroy the Islamic State (IS), over the San Bernardino massacre, which has left 14 people killed in California last week.

“The threat from terrorism is real, but we will overcome it. We will destroy ISIL (IS) and any other organization that tries to harm us” Obama said.

The U.S. was struck by a mass shooting in California, as a young married Muslim couple have opened fire on an office party full of co-workers. The IS has acclaimed the attackers, U.S.-born Syed Farook and his Pakistani wife Tashfeen Malik, were their followers.

In his rare solemn adress on Dec. 7 in the Oval Office, Obama reassured the States was determinant to hunt down IS and its followers across the world.

“After so much war, many Americans are asking whether we are confronted by a cancer that has no immediate cure” he said, referring the the Bernardino attack an evidence of an “evolving” threat, increasingly growing at home country.

“The threat from terrorism is real, but we will overcome it. We will destroy ISIL and any other organization that tries to harm us” Obama wowed.

“Our military will continue to hunt down terrorist plotters in any country where it is necessary” he added.

Meanwhile, Obama urged Muslims, across the world and the U.S., should “decisively and unequivocally reject the hateful ideology that groups like ISIL and al-Qaeda promote”.

“They had stockpiled assault weapons, ammunition, and pipe bombs. So this was an act of terrorism” said Obama, referring to the deadly attack, adding that “no evidence that the killers were directed by a terrorist organization overseas or that they were part of a broader conspiracy here at home”.

“ISIL does not speak for Islam. They are thugs and killers. Part of a cult of death…

If we’re to succeed in defeating terrorism, we must enlist Muslim communities as some of our strongest allies rather than push them away through suspicion and hate” he urged.

Obama also said that U.S. “should not be drawn once more into a long and costly ground war in Iraq and Syria”. “That’s what groups like ISIL want” he said, while adding:

“They know they can’t defeat us on the battlefield... but they also know that if we occupy foreign lands, they can maintain insurgencies for years, killing thousands of our troops and draining our resources, and using our presence to draw new recruits”.

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- Adress of Barack Obama in the Oval Office

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