JOHN KERRY :US NOT AT WAR WITH ISIS WILL THE REAL OBAMA STAND UP ARE WE AT WAR OR NOT_? __________________ (CNN) -- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday would not say the United States is at war with ISIS, telling CNN in an interview that the administrations strategy includes many different things that one doesnt think of normally in context of war. What we are doing is engaging in a very significant counter-terrorism operation, Kerry told CNNs Elise Labott in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Its going to go on for some period of time. If somebody wants to think about it as being a war with ISIL, they can do so, but the fact is its a major counterterrorism operation that will have many different moving parts. Kicking off meetings with leaders from key Arab countries in Saudi Arabia to enlist regional support for a global coalition to defeat ISIS, Kerry defended the administrations insistence that the 2001 authority to go after al Qaeda and affiliates applies to ISIS even if the two groups have publicly split from each other. He insisted that the groups origin as an al Qaeda affiliate is enough to consider them connected. Asked how much of the interpretation lets Congress get away from a vote on going after ISIS -- a scenario lawmakers would like to avoid in an election year -- Kerry responded none. cnn/2014/09/11/world/meast/kerry-mideast-visit-isis/
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