60 percent says the U.S. is at war with Islamic terrorism

Clinton reiterated her support for a no-fly zone over the northern region of Syria – a step opposed by Obama – saying it would help with conditions inside the country and pressure Assad to reach a political settlement in peace talks being brokered by Secretary of State John Kerry.

“We have to fit a lot of pieces together, bring a lot of partners along, move on multiple fronts at once”, she said, speaking to a small audience gathered at the Council on Foreign Relations in Manhattan. “No other country can rally the world to defeat ISIS and win the generational struggle to defeat jihadism”, she said.

Instead, she said, “We should be sending more special operators, we should be empowering our trainers in Iraq, we should be… leading an air coalition, using both fighter planes and drones”. “A key obstacle standing in the way is a shortage of good intelligence about ISIS and its operations”. Admittedly, “10,000 troops” is probably less of a carefully thought through figure than a nice-sounding placeholder for the concept that we need a much larger infantry force in the fight; if the war were to widen and intensify, maybe the new placeholder figure would be closer to 100K.

Although a plurality of Americans, 46 percent, still said terrorist groups such as the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) do not represent the true Muslim faith, that number is down from 58 percent in February.

Airstrikes though, Clinton added, “will have to be combined with ground forces actually taking back more territory from ISIS”. Clinton’s record on foreign policy gives her an accountability problem by giving Republicans something to attack; in a campaign in 2015, it’s nearly better to have no record to point to than to provide your opponents anything to dispute.

“So what is this false attack really all about: either Secretary Hillary Clinton is repudiating years of advocating for universal health care or she’s playing politics with the health of America’s families”. “When NY was attacked on 9/11, we had a Republican president, a Republican governor, and a Republican mayor, and I worked with all of them”.

Clinton has pointed out that former President George W. Bush once stressed that the USA was not at war with Islam and she doesn’t want “us to be painting with too broad a brush”.

Even though Clinton’s views matched with the Republicans who held that the president is not being aggressive enough in dealing with the United States, she also criticised those who were against accepting Syrian refugees. Alas, it offered far more rhetoric than substance.

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“People should not be using the political process to inject racism into the debate”, Sanders continued. And that’s why I focused on ISIS.

One, defeat ISIS in Syria, Iraq, and across the Middle East. Two, disrupt and dismantle the growing terrorist infrastructure that facilitates the flow of fighters, financing, arms, and propaganda around the world.

Bernie Sanders Thursday proposed creating an worldwide organization to battle the rise of violent extremism and said wealthy Muslim nations should shoulder more responsibility as part of a global effort to destroy the Islamic State and its followers.

“A staggering 92 percent of all voters now regard radical Islamic terrorism as a serious threat to the United States”.

“We can not allow terrorists to intimidate us into abandoning our values and humanitarian obligations”, said Clinton.

More than 13 years after then-Senator Hillary Clinton voted for a United States war of aggression against Iraq based upon lies about weapons of mass destruction, presidential candidate Clinton insists that the jury is still out on this criminal war, which slaughtered hundreds of thousands and turned millions into refugees.