Jeb Bush: Call Radical Islam What it is

However, Bush said there should be compassion for people who are not part of the fight, which means there should be “incredible screening”, but at the same time, the ultimate objective is not to take in refugees.

The impact of the Paris attacks on the US presidential campaign for the November 2016 election has been swift and powerful with national security suddenly thrust back to the top of voters’ concerns.

“This is not a question of religion”, Bush said.

“We should be creating safety in Syria, and that requires we be all-in”, said Bush. “We need to be all in on it”.

On Sunday afternoon, Jeb doubled down in a statement, saying: “These attacks are a stark reminder of the serious threat we face”. If we summon our resources but our leadership resources but all the tools at our disposal, not just military force, which should be used as a last resort, but our diplomacy, our development aid, law enforcement, sharing of intelligent in a much more open and cooperative way, that we can bring people together, but it cannot be an American fight. Bush also added that if necessary he would consider “possibly” working with Vladimir Putin and forces in Russian Federation in order to eradicate the Islamic State.

Further, he said that he’d prefer the United States to speak with those countries from a position of strength, and the United States’ role in the Middle East now is “a position of complete weakness”.

If elected, Trump told MSNBC he would consider shutting down Islamic mosques in the United States in an effort to combat the radicalization of Muslims. “And I think we should have – we should focus our efforts as it relates to the Christians that are being slaughtered”.

“We are at war with radical Islam, with an interpretation of Islam by a significant number of people around the world, who they believe now justifies them in killing those who don’t agree with their ideology”, he said. In other words, you-that is, we-do precisely what the United States and its allies did in Iraq and Afghanistan under the leadership of Jeb’s brother George W.

Trump also said he backed a few US troops – perhaps 10,000 – in the region but would instead focus on targeting Islamic State’s oil and banking operations. “We cannot let them come into this country, period”. Bernie Sanders, who on Sunday in Iowa called for more cooperation among global powers.

As promised, and as rumored, CBS News’s John Dickerson used the first block of tonight’s Democratic presidential debate to push the candidates on foreign policy.