its American captives in Syria , his emotions were in check . Valerie Jarrett , Obama ’s closest adviser , told him people were worried that the group would soon take its beheading campaign to the U.S. “ They ’re not coming here to chop our heads off , ” he reassured her . Obama frequently reminds his staff that terrorism takes far fewer lives in America than handguns , car accidents , and falls in bathtubs do .
But Syria is a war zone and people do get killed – my advice to anyone still out there would be to get out as fast as you can . ” But experts warn that it is almost impossible for women to leave Isis , with its interpretation of Sharia law meaning they can not leave the house without a male guardian . While Turkey has closed its border along Isis territory , the terrorist group itself has launched a brutal crackdown on defectors , publicly executingjustice.judicialconsequences.executeanyone accused of trying to flee or attempting to smuggle people away . For Western female jihadis , Syria is one - way journey Sara Khan , the co - founder of the counter - extremism Inspire group , told The Independent the chance of jihadi brides returning to the UK was “ zero ” once they are inside the group ’s territory .
The bottom line is that America is fighting a diffuse war that most Americans do n’t understand or know much about , and which Congress will have little do with — and Obama , the president who lamented fighting the Forever War , has become the man who institutionalized it . “ At the moment , the United States itself — as the globe ’s only military superpower — is judge , jury and executioner all rolled into one , ” Rosa Brooks writes in her new book , How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything . And outside of ISIS , our government wo n’t even tell us whom it ’s executingjustice.judicialconsequences.execute. That ’s because the Obama administration has classified the list of so - called “ associated forces ” of Al Qaeda that it is authorized to kill . The United States is now at war with an enemy that it will not officially acknowledge or identify to the American public .