Obama Defends U.S. Approach to Countering Islamic State

BUENOS AIRES—President Barack Obama defended his strategy against the Islamic State from new criticism after this week’s deadly attacks in Brussels, while urging Americans and others not to succumb to fears of terrorism at home.

 

Mr. Obama said critics who argue he should have cut short his trip to Argentina and Cuba, where he attended a baseball game in Havana just hours after the attacks, are misguided.

 

“Even as we are systematic and ruthless and focused in going after them, disrupting their networks, getting their leaders, rolling up their operations, it is very important for us to not respond with fear,” Mr. Obama said at a news conference here with Argentinian President Mauricio Macri.

 

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