Clinton: US must push Arab leaders to confront Islamic State

“This is a worldwide fight and America must lead it”, the Democratic presidential candidate declared. “That starts with a more effective coalition air campaign; with more allied planes, more strikes, and a broader target set”, Clinton said.

“Hillary Clinton understands that child care teachers need living wages and that the care has to be affordable for people”, said Marites McLean, a child care provider and member of SEIU Local 509 in MA. “We need to have a resolve that will bring the world together to root out the kind of radical jihadist ideology that motivates organizations like ISIL, a barbaric, ruthless, violent jihadist group”. “It’s simply false”, she said. “And Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign has spent $8.1 million, while the Super PAC backing her has spent an additional $199,000”.

Sanders other central argument, which conveniently doubles as an attack on Clinton’s record, is that the USA should never have gone into Iraq to begin with and should now steadfastly oppose putting boots on the ground in the region.

Clinton’s remarks also drew a striking contrast with many of her Republican opponents who have advocated for a large-scale military mobilization, new measures to bar Syrian refugees from entering the country and a congressional declaration of war.

“That helps to explain why she’s trailing most of the Republican candidates, ” he said.

“If she starts trying to dilute the Obama presidency or reject programs like his historic trade pact, Obama could campaign for her but say ‘I’m not going to the mat for her, “‘ said Brinkley.

“I think he’s a communist”.

Aides were working on the speech, which Clinton was said to have a substantial hand in, until hours before she delivered it. Clinton delivered the speech at the Council on Foreign Relations’ Pratt House, an ornate mansion on New York’s Upper Eastside. She has aligned herself fairly closely with the president in the past but has also pushed for measures Obama has so far kept clear of, such as implementing a no-fly zone in Syria. “Because I have spent decades in Europe, I have spent decades in the Middle East. Because I know more world leaders on the stage today than anyone running, with the possible exception of Hillary Clinton – but I didn’t do photo ops with them”.

Clinton has been hesitant to criticize Obama’s strategy outright.

“We must deny them virtual territory, just as we deny them actual territory”, she said.

“We can not allow terrorists to intimidate us into abandoning our values”, she said.

Madkins, a Democrat, said he believes that the United States has a responsibility to accept Syrian refugees.

We raised this subject earlier this week, but it bears repeating again: Can our current politics (which are more polarized than they were 14 years ago) handle a Paris-style attack in the United States?