President Barack Obama defended his decision to stay in Cuba to attend a Major League Baseball exhibition between the Cuban National Team and Tampa Bay Rays with President Raul Castro, following a terrorist attack in Brussels.
KTLA reported that Republican presidential runner John Kasich criticized Obama for failing to immediately return to the U.S. However, the president argued that following his schedule denied the militant groups any victory in their aim of upending daily life. The president also said that it is the whole premise of terrorism to disrupt an individual's ordinary life.
President Barack Obama recollected a pre-game speech given by David Ortiz, a former Boston Red Sox, who told the audience that nobody is going to dictate their freedom after the bombing in Boston Marathon back in 2013. According to ABC News, it was one of the president's "proudest moment as US commander-in-chief."
The matchup between the Cuban national team and the Tampa Bay Rays was considered to be a historic matchup and during the game, he was asked to weigh in on the attacks that befell in the Belgian capital that killed 31 people and 190 wounded. Obama responded saying that the American people stand in solidarity with Belgium, reports Time.
"We will do whatever is necessary to support our friends and allies in Belgium in bringing to justice those who are responsible," Obama said. The president also told everyone that the attack in Brussel serves as another reminder that the world must unite.
He underlined that he and other world leaders were fully committed to bringing the extremists down and that they are going to continue with over 60 countries that are pounding ISIL. Three explosions hit the Belgium's international airport, including the city's subway station in what the local federal prosecutors classified as terrorist attacks that took many lives, with three Americans who are injured.
