Trump and Clinton spar over ISIS and foreign policy

A Trump administration will build an active Army of around 540,000, a Marine Corps based on 36 battalions, a Navy approaching 350 surface ships and submarines, and an Air Force of at least 1,200 fighter aircraft.

Trump also announced that he will seek to develop a state-of-the-art-missile defence system; will modernise naval cruisers to provide Ballistic Missile Defence capabilities and will enforce all classification rules.

Speaking with Israel’s Channel 2, Clinton said that by singling out Muslims during his campaign, Trump had played into the hands of extremists and helped their recruitment efforts, in effect “giving aid and comfort to their evil ambitions”.

“I am proposing a new foreign policy focused on advancing America’s core national interests, promoting regional stability, and producing an easing of tensions in the world. There are many people that think that that’s absolutely correct”, he said. “I have no doubt he had a lot of ideas about how he had planned to deal with this confrontation with ISIS and he’s going to work with our military generals to firm that up”. “For this reason, we support Donald Trump and his commitment to rebuild our military, to secure our borders, to defeat our Islamic supremacist adversaries and restore law and order domestically”.

Jeff Sessions defended his party’s nominee in an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper on “The Lead” when pressed about what happened to a “foolproof” plan to defeat ISIS that the candidate had spoken of in 2015. But if there’s one thing all Americans agree on, it’s that the former secretary of State is extremely amusing.

When asked to clarify claims that he knows more about fighting ISIS than the generals leading the battle, Trump responded that what was really needed to defeat the terrorists was new leadership.

“Yeah, I guess so”, Trump said. I mean, we need change.

Trump also angered many in the military community with mocking remarks against US Senator and former prisoner of war John McCain for being captured in Vietnam. Asked why she does not refer to the fight against ISIS as a “war on radical Islam”, Clinton argued that linking the militants’ murderous creed with the faith tradition of 2 billion people “actually serves the objective of the radical jihadists”.

Trump said early in his term, he will be requesting that all North Atlantic Treaty Organisation nations promptly pay their bills, which many are not doing right now.

However, top defence contractors in the U.S. seem to favour Clinton as they have given more donations to Clinton’s campaign, reported Politico.