加州槍擊事件後奧巴馬努力緩解恐怖主義帶來的恐懼

U.S. President Barack Obama is making a rare primetime television address to the country late Sunday, hoping to calm Americans' fears about terrorist attacks and lay out the United States campaign against "the broader threat of terrorism."

He also plans to update the country on the investigation into last week's mass shooting in California, where U.S.-born Syed Rizwan Farook and his Pakistani wife Tashfeen Malik killed 14 people and wounded another 21 in a hail of gunfire at a holiday gathering of local government workers in San Bernardino

The White House said Obama will discuss the nature of the terrorist threat, "how it has evolved, and how we will defeat it."

Obama "will reiterate his firm conviction" that Islamic State insurgents "will be destroyed and that the United States must draw upon our values, our unwavering commitment to justice, equality and freedom..."

Obama will speak from the Oval Office in the White House, where U.S. presidents have delivered some of their most significant speeches. Obama last gave a televised speech from the Oval Office to announce the end of U.S. ground combat operations in Iraq in 2010.美國總統奧巴馬星期天晚上將罕見地在電視黃金時段發表全國講話，希望緩解美國民衆對恐怖襲擊的恐懼，他還闡述了美國在更大範圍打擊恐怖主義的舉措。

奧巴馬總統將向民衆報告對上星期加利福尼亞槍殺事件的最新調查結果。美國出生的法魯克和他的巴基斯坦妻子馬利克在加利福尼亞州聖貝納迪諾當地政府僱員一個節日聚會上開槍打死14人，打傷21人。

白宮說，奧巴馬總統將談到恐怖主義威脅的實質和演變過程，以及如何將其擊敗。

奧巴馬總統將強調他的決心，最終消滅伊斯蘭國組織的激進分子，而美國的力量來自於其價值觀以及對公正、平等和自由的堅決承諾。

奧巴馬總統將在白宮的橢圓辦公室發表講話。美國多位總統曾在那裏發表重要講話。奧巴馬總統上次在橢圓辦公室發表講話是在2010年，宣佈美國軍隊停止在伊拉克的作戰行動。