“Obama's remarks, after a private meeting with Hollande at the White House, reflect an effort to adjust his adjust his tone without changing the substance of his position: Obama still doesn't want to send U.S. ground troops, impose a no-fly zone, abandon a Syrian refugee program in the U.S., or drop his insistence that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad must leave power,'” write Margaret Talev and Justin Sink for Bloomberg.
“The new pledges of military support, if honored, would reverse what had been a worrying trend for some U.S. officials. Prior to the attacks in Paris, eight Western and Arab allies had carried out 5 percent of the 2,700 airstrikes in Syria that took place since the operation began and about 30 percent of the 5,100 airstrikes in Iraq, according to the New York Times,” writes John Hudson for Foreign Policy.
“[Hollande’s] prospects for success are mixed. The leaders of the US, Russia, Germany and Britain – whom Hollande will meet separately over four days – agree unreservedly about the necessity of eradicating Isis. All want a peace deal to end the Syrian civil war. But there is less agreement on how to do this,” writes Simon Tisdall for the Guardian.