U.S. President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron vowed to continue their fight against the “distorted ideology” of Islamist extremists, in a joint opinion piece published Thursday in The Times of London. The joint op-ed comes ahead of Cameron’s two-day trip to Washington, which is likely to be his final trip to the U.S. before the UK’s general elections in May.
“Whether we are facing lone fanatics or terrorist organizations such as al Qaeda, Islamic State or Boko Haram, we will not be cowed by extremists. We will defeat these barbaric killers and their distorted ideology,” Obama and Cameron wrote in the article, published just a week after terrorist attacks in Paris led the deaths of 17 people.Read More…