{"id":45541,"date":"2014-09-07T16:24:53","date_gmt":"2014-09-07T16:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=45541"},"modified":"2014-09-07T14:29:47","modified_gmt":"2014-09-07T14:29:47","slug":"obama-to-set-out-plan-to-go-on-offensive-against-islamic-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/09\/obama-to-set-out-plan-to-go-on-offensive-against-islamic-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama to set out plan to go on offensive against Islamic State"},"content":{"rendered":"
President\u00a0Barack Obama\u00a0said he will explain to Americans and congressional leaders this week his plan to “start going on some offense” against Islamic State militants, who he said could eventually become a threat to the United States.<\/p>\n
Obama will make a speech on Wednesday to “describe what our game plan’s going to be,” and meet congressional leaders on Tuesday to seek their support for his strategy to halt the militant Islamist group, which controls parts of\u00a0Syria\u00a0and\u00a0Iraq.<\/p>\n
The president, who campaigned on getting U.S. troops out ofIraq, has struggled to articulate how he wants to address Islamic State, telling reporters last month that “we don’t have a strategy yet” to tackle the group.<\/p>\n