Washington (CNN) -- It was a speech that Barack Obama -- a war-stopping, Nobel Peace Prize-winning President -- never wanted to give. A year after he pulled back from threatened military attacks on Syria over chemical weapons, Obama told America he now would launch airstrikes against ISIS targets in the country wracked by civil war. The nationally televised address on Wednesday night, which lasted less than 15 minutes, promised far-reaching impact that could embroil the nation in another Middle East conflict. "This was a very difficult speech for him," CNN chief political analyst Gloria Borger said of a President who campaigned on ending wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. "He's inserted us into the middle of a Syrian civil war."
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President Obama expands airstrikes against ISIS to Syria
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He announces more military advisers to Iraq in a nationally televised address
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CNN's Jim Sciutto says the President reverses previous stances
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"A very difficult speech for him," CNN's Gloria Borger says
America
This is a core principle of my presidency: if you threaten @placeholder, you will find no safe haven."
America
In addition, 475 more U.S. military advisers are headed to Iraq, raising the total of @placeholder forces there to 1,700 for a mission originally described as limited.
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Noting the formation of a new @placeholder government, which his administration has demanded, Obama announced that "America will lead a broad coalition to roll back this terrorist threat."
Middle East
That was the case before 9/11, and that remains true today," Obama said in depicting ISIS as a threat to the @placeholder, including the people of Iraq and Syria, rather than the U.S. homeland.