Clinton Foreign Policy 2.0: We’ve Learned a few Things, Let’s Not Forget

Sanders opposes a no-fly zone, arguing it could pull the US into perpetual war.

Mrs Clinton emphasised the importance of what she has long called “smart power” the co-ordinated deployment of all of America’s levers of influence – “military and diplomacy, development and economic and cultural influence, technology and maybe most importantly our values” in a moral and military fight against IS.

Instead, Clinton sought to ramp up pressure on Iraq’s Shia-led government and on Turkey to set aside old grievances.

“Our goal is not to deter or contain ISIS, but to defeat and destroy ISIS”.

On the Syrian refugees, Clinton said, “Turning away orphans, applying a religious test, discriminating against Muslims, slamming the door on every Syrian refugee-that is just not who we are”.

Clinton also urged Congress to “swiftly” pass an updated authorization to use military force against the militants.

Clinton’s speech and remarks to the Council on Foreign Relations garnered high marks from an unexpected place.

“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. She said success will only be achieved if Arab countries and Turkey step up involvement in a “much bigger way”.

Even Hillary herself admitted, in a question-and-answer session afterward, that her proposal is but “an intensification, an acceleration” of the failed Obama strategy. “But the threat from ISIS can not wait”, said Clinton. While it’s unlikely she could lose the nomination this time, she still needs to make sure she doesn’t alienate a Democratic base that she will need to come out in force on Election Day in November 2016. She pushed for the United States to join a coalition to oust Libya’s strongman Moammar Gadhafi.

She underscored that position again Thursday. “But we can not substitute for them”. The subject was thrown into the spotlight after ISIS fighters massacred 130 people in Paris last week. “I think it’s improper to turn our back on those people now”, he said.

Clinton criticized Republican Sen. She also called for the creation of a no-fly zone to protect civilian Syrians.

“ISIS is demonstrating new ambition, reach, and capabilities”.

Hillary Clinton tried to make up for a scattered performance on foreign policy during this weekend’s Democratic debate by laying out her vision to tackle the so-called Islamic State. “I was a senator from NY on 9/11”. Other Democratic nominees have been hesitant to stray from what President Obama is already doing in Syria.

The political reality in the United States of the Paris attacks is that support for fighting terrorists coexists with opposition for any real-world policy solutions. And let’s face it folks: Who’s going to vote for one of those insane Republicans?

Former Florida governor Jeb Bush on Wednesday called for the USA to “increase our presence on the ground”. Bush’s speech at The Citadel had been planned for weeks, but the Paris attacks gave him an opportunity to remind voters that the next president will quickly confront vexing problems.

Clinton had two allies that made sure to put her in a good light in Nashville, U.S. Rep. Jim Cooper and Mayor Megan Barry.

Regarding her plans over annihilating ISIS, Clinton said that the terrorist threat is one that she takes very seriously.

As state institutions deteriorated throughout the war-torn nation, al-Qaeda in Iraq, or AQI, took advantage of the vacuum created by the conflict and took root in Raqqa, a city in eastern Syria.

“This is their fight, and they need to act like it”, she said.

Clinton also lashed out at GOP candidates who want to bar entry to Syrian refugees into the United States in case their number includes extremists.