President Barack Obama says he has watched “the terrible stuff that’s happening” in Islamic State (ISIS) videos showing beheading of its hostages.
For a great orator, it is strange that he couldn’t come up with a term a bit more meaningful than “terrible stuff.”
In an interview conducted on Sunday and to be aired today on NBC’s Today Show, President Obama added that his administration is doing everything possible to free an unnamed 26-year-old American, a woman who is an aid worker abducted in Syria last year.
Presumably, the United State is practicing what it preaches and is not preparing to pay millions of dollars in ransom to fund the Islamic State to save a hostage’s life, an act that only encourages the terrorist organization to kidnap more victims.
“We are deploying all the assets that we can, working with all the coalition allies that we can, to identify her location,” he said. .
The president said officials are in touch with the American woman’s family, and he called the situation “heartbreaking.”
“I think it’s fair to say that, anything related to these terrorist actions, I take a look at,” he told The Today Show, referring to the videos of beheadings. “I think it would affect anybody who has an ounce of humanity. And it’s part of the reason why I think we’ve been so successful in organizing such a broad-based coalition.”
The ISIS released a video last week that showed a masked terrorists threatening to behead President Obama inside the White House and turn the United States into a “Muslim Province.”