GOP rivals fault Obama, Clinton in failing to counter Islamist threat

The responses by GOP candidates covered a few of the same common ground, with a few advocating more direct involvement by the U.S.

Republicans, on the other hand, are issuing lots of policy specifics and ratcheting up rhetoric, intimating that what’s being done – and been done in the past seven years by President Obama – to keep the country safe is not enough. Lindsey Graham warned Sunday that “there is a 9/11 coming” if the United States does not play a leading role in a ground war against ISIS.

Russian President Vladimir Putin sent his deep condolences to Hollande and all the people of France following the “horrible terrorist attacks in Paris”, the Kremlin said in a statement.

He said the world again has seen evil visited upon innocent people and that the outrage must be turned into action and resolve. “Because why wouldn’t they infiltrate them with people who are ideologically opposed to us?”

Déjà vu reminders, such as shock and awe bombings by France Sunday, reprised tough lessons learned at the hands of al-Qaeda after 9/11.

Clinton knows that what happened in Paris has changed her political calculus back home. “I don’t want us to be painting with too broad a brush”. It’s heartbreaking. Outrageous…. Such savagery can never threaten who we are.

“We will redouble our efforts, working with other members of the coalition, to bring about a peaceful transition in Syria and to eliminate (ISIS) as a force that can create so much pain and suffering for people in Paris”, Obama said. Saturday’s debate is in Des Moines, Iowa.

Bernie Sanders: The Vermont independent, running for the Democratic presidential nomination, was tweeting about debate watch parties, that a former Clinton supporter is endorsing him Monday, retweeted that he’d be on CBS’s Face The Nation to react to the debate and outlined what could be potential debate topics – student debt and the Supreme Court agreeing to hear the Texas abortion case.

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush called for a “thorough screening” of those refugees in an appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union”.

For Republicans, a different story.

“Do we need another young, inexperienced President to come into office when the world is on fire”. “It’s pinprick, it’s photo-op foreign policy”.

Ted Cruz: Calling for an immediate halt to any plans to bring more Syrian refugees to the U.S. He added that messing with the US and saddling up with ISIS is “in effect, signing your own death warrant”.

Unlike the Republican candidates, however, the Democrats haven’t spent much time on the campaign trail honing their rhetoric on foreign policy.

On Saturday, Trump spoke out about the attacks publicly, saying it shows how “insane” it would be for the U.S.to take in a large number of Syrian refugees.

GOP candidates had bashed Obama’s Syrian refugee plans on Saturday, as well.

The reason Hart sees an advantage for former Secretary of State Clinton is that a greater focus on terrorism will cause voters to look even more for a “heavy and strong hand at the tiller”. “On an afternoon like this afternoon we wouldn’t be anxious about ISIS slipping across our borders to commit unspeakable acts of violence” if the government had addressed the issue, he said.

Clinton suggested “pulling countries off the sidelines so that they work with us and contribute to this ongoing struggle against radical jihadism”.

“I am confident the authorities and the French people will overcome this new trial”, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said.

The rise of ISIS has challenged President Obama’s vision for the Middle East after the drawdown of USA troops from Iraq.

“That’s because there’s no leadership”, Carson said. “You can’t really call for something like that and just think it’s gonna magically form, it has to form behind a leader”.

John Kasich: He led an impromptu prayer at an event Friday night in New Hampshire, per the Washington Post.

“They have wanted to attack in public places like we saw so tragically this week”, he said. “My guess is that the Paris attacks will also follow this pattern”. Negotiations, ambivalence, or delay are not acceptable, ” Kasich said. “ISIS must be wiped out”. “He wasn’t in Congress and wasn’t dealing with it”.

Similarly, it’s hard to see how this focus would assist Trump’s closest rival in the polls, the pediatric neurosurgeon Ben Carson, a political novice.