U.S. and Britain Present a United Front
By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS
JAN. 16, 2015
President Obama and Prime Minister David Cameron of Britain said they would work together to thwart extremism and terrorism around the world. Video by Reuters on Publish Date January 16, 2015. Photo by Stephen Crowley/The New York Times.
WASHINGTON — President Obama said Friday that the United States and Britain have pledged new cooperation to bolster cybersecurity and an intensified effort against the Islamic State as the two nations work to confront a mounting threat from violent extremists across the globe in the wake of terrorist attacks in Paris.
“This phenomenon of violent extremism — the ideology, the networks, the capacity to recruit young people — this has metastasized and it is widespread, and it has penetrated communities around the world,” Mr. Obama said at a news conference in the East Room of the White House with Prime Minister David Cameron of Britain.
“I do not consider it an existential threat,” the president added. “We are stronger. We are representing values that the vast majority of Muslims believe in — in tolerance and in working together to build, rather than to destroy.”
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Mr. Obama and Mr. Cameron met for more than an hour at the White House on Friday after holding a working dinner the night before. The two leaders also agreed to step up the training of Iraqi military forces to counter the Islamic State, the militant group also known as ISIS or ISIL.
Photo Prime Minister David Cameron of Britain and President Obama in the Oval Office at the White House on Friday. Credit Stephen Crowley/The New York Times
Both also said they would press forward with negotiations on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, a broad agreement between the United States and the European Union.
“On many of the most pressing challenges that we face, we see the world the same way,” Mr. Obama said of himself and Mr. Cameron, whom he called a “great friend.” He joked about calling the British prime minister “bro” in their private chats, a tidbit Mr. Cameron revealed to reporters recently that, Mr. Obama said, “sent some commentators into a tizzy.”
Mr. Cameron’s visit coincided with growing anxiety in Europe about terrorism and the influence of Islamic extremism after the deadly attacks in Paris on the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo and a kosher supermarket.
By Friday morning, police raids at several locations in Belgium added to the nervousness on the Continent as investigators said they had captured more than a dozen militants and killed two other Belgians they believed had been planning attacks against the police.
And while Mr. Obama and Mr. Cameron presented a unified front on combating the threat, the two leaders spoke about it in different terms. “We do face a very serious Islamist extremist terrorist threat in Europe, in America, across the world,” Mr. Cameron said. “We’ve got to strengthen our police and security. We’ve got to make sure we do everything we can to keep our country safe, and that involves an incredibly long-term, patient, disciplined approach.”
Mr. Obama, who has been careful not to describe the recent attacks as Islamic extremism, said the United States has an advantage over Europe in that members of its Muslim population “feel themselves to be Americans,” something he said is not true in parts of the Continent.
“It’s important for Europe not to simply respond with a hammer and law enforcement and military approaches to these problems,” Mr. Obama said. Making sure that Muslims in Europe feel tied to their countries’ values and “a sense of opportunity,” he said, was “going to be as important, if not more important, in, over time, solving this problem.”
Mr. Obama said the American and British governments have been talking to private companies to devise ways to obtain more access to encrypted messages on the Internet between terrorists, while respecting “legitimate privacy concerns.”
At the news conference, he also made public a threat he issued to Senate Democrats at a closed-door meeting on Thursday: to veto bipartisan legislation that would set off new sanctions on Iran should diplomatic talks to curb its nuclear program unravel. “There is no good argument for us to try to undercut, undermine the negotiations until they have played themselves out,” he said. “My main message to Congress at this point is just hold your fire.”
Senator Robert Menendez, Democrat of New Jersey and an author of the sanctions legislation, disagreed. “I do not believe in negotiating out of weakness; I believe in negotiating out of strength,” he said.
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Michael D. Shear contributed reporting.
A version of this article appears in print on January 17, 2015, on page A8 of the New York edition with the headline: U.S. and Britain Present a United Front.
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