Vox - One passage from Obama's speech — where he defines the nature of the threat from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) — is really striking, and worth pulling out in detail:
[ISIS] poses a threat to the people of Iraq and Syria, and the broader Middle East - including American citizens, personnel and facilities. If left unchecked, these terrorists could pose a growing threat beyond that region - including to the United States.
Did you catch that? Obama is admitting, tacitly, that ISIS is not currently a threat to the American homeland. It "threatens" the broader Middle East, but only "could pose a growing threat" to the United States.
The US is attacking ISIS because it one day might be a threat, not because it's capable of executing an attack in the US right now.
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