Clinton calls for USA to ‘intensify’ fight against Daesh

From the time she left the State Department to her presidential campaign launch, Clinton went on the speaking circuit, raking in millions, with a typical fee of around $200,000 per speech.

Her emphasis on American leadership marks a shift in tone from the second Democratic debate on Saturday, where Clinton said that the battle “cannot be an American fight”.

“Across the world, the Obama-Clinton foreign policy lies in tatters”, Priebus said in attacking the speech. As the Los Angeles Times pointed out over the weekend, the vast majority of the schemes to fight ISIS put forth from the leading contenders in the GOP field amount to: more airstrikes, more aide to the Kurds, more special ops advisors, and a stronger coalition of partners. “That starts with a more effective coalition air campaign, with more allied planes, more strikes and a broader target set”.

“We should be honest about the fact that, to be successful, airstrikes will have to be combined with ground forces actually taking back more territory from ISIS”, Clinton added.

“ISIS is demonstrating new ambition, reach, and capabilities”, she said in a speech before the Council on Foreign Relations.

When asked later by the moderator if she would change her mind on ground troops if the USA was hit at home, she said public sentiment would inevitably grow for such action, “but I think it would be a mistake”.

Indicating support for arming Sunni and Kurdish fighters, Clinton said that “Baghdad needs to accept, even embrace, arming Sunni and Kurdish forces in the war against ISIS”.

“That is just not the smart move to make here”, the former Secretary of State said, according to Politico. But “if we’ve learned anything from 15 years of war in Iraq and Afghanistan, its that local people and nations have to secure their own communities”. “We know how important the federal government is and the crucial role they play in urban cities, And I know that Hillary Clinton will be a president who gets it.”, stated Barry, a mayor who is well-known for her desires to expand prekindergarten, reduce gun violence in cities and increase transit options.

That said, Ms Clinton is much more assertive than Mr Obama on the need to project U.S. power and was often frustrated with the president’s reluctant style of leadership on the global stage. “Turning away orphans, applying a religious test, discriminating against Muslims, slamming the door on every Syrian refugee, that is just not who we are”.

“We need Silicon Valley not to view government as its adversary”, she said, but to work with the government “to develop solutions that will both keep us safe and protect our privacy”. “It can not be contained, it must be defeated”, she said in a clear reference to Barack Obama’s foolish “contained” remarks hours before the deadly attack in Paris. As a Senator from NY, Clinton voted for the Patriot Act, supported military tribunals for suspected terrorists, and the war in Iraq.

Clinton has also called for the United States to continue to take in refugees from Syria, something a host of Republican governors and presidential candidates have said they would not do.

Meanwhile, Republicans in Washington pushed legislation toward approval that would establish new hurdles for Syrian and Iraqi refugees trying to enter the U.S. Obama has promised a veto, but his top aides struggled Thursday to limit Democratic defections. “We should not stop pressing until Turkey, where most foreign fighters cross into Syria, finally locks down its border”.

And Clinton doubled-down on her call for allowing refugees into the United States.

“All of them want to represent themselves as the candidate”, Burchfield said, “and of course they assume Hillary Clinton will be the candidate for the Democratic Party”.

CLINTON: “There – we have to prioritize, and we had an opportunity, perhaps, I won’t say that it would’ve worked”. Maybe sometime in the future when we feel we have a better control over ISIS, maybe we’ve clipped their wings a little bit.