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6 Americans Killed in Afghanistan Suicide Attack - ABC News | Israel's David Sling missile defense passes final test | Reuters | EU Extends Russia Sanctions for Another 6 Months - The NYT | 1 Killed After Car Hits Crowds of Pedestrians on Vegas Strip - ABC News | Oil at 11-year low, election impasse hits Spanish assets | Reuters | "...It is important not just to shoot but to aim..." - Video And Transcript: NPR's Interview With President Obama : NPR - 1:13 PM 12/21/2015

Video And Transcript: NPR's Interview With President Obama : NPR Notable Quotes:   On "ISIS" strategy : "aiming and shooting": "But what I would say to my successor is that it is important not just to shoot but to aim , and it is important in this seat to make sure that you are making your best judgments based on data, intelligence, the information that's coming from your commanders and folks on the ground, and you're not being swayed by politics."  See more on this subject ("Don't do the thing I've done"):  Obama's struggle to realise anti-war rhetoric  - BBC:  Admittedly, the current US military deployments of a few thousand in total are a far cry from the height of US deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, the two wars he had promised to end, while Syria is the one he tried to avoid until he felt it was no longer tenable. But there is currently no likely scenario under which any of these wars will co