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US President Barack Obama said in a recent interview that he regrets "not watching enough cable news," because he felt it would have helped him understand how anxious people were about "ISIS", and he would have then given the public more details on work his administration is doing to address the issue.

Obama urged American citizens not to perceive the "ISIS" extremist group as a threat, reassuring them that the current US anti-terrorist strategy is working. His explanation gave the impression he felt that if only he took the trouble to explain to people what was going on, public sentiment would be different.

"Now on our side, I think that there is a legitimate criticism of what I've been doing and our administration has been doing in the sense that we haven't...on a regular basis...described all the work that we've been doing for more than a year now to defeat "ISIS,"" Obama said.

About a year ago, the American president addressed the US public, outlining his administration's policy toward "ISIS", and saying that there would be no ground troops deployed and that airstrikes, financial sanctions, and the arming of allies in the region would be sufficient to defeat the group.

Now, a year later, "ISIS" is still in existence and in spite of relentless bombardment, by Russia and other countries, the violent extremist group does not appear to be dissolving.

In other words, the strategy is working, and the White House must shift the method it is using to get the message across.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team