Hillary Clinton Outlines 5-Point Plan To Take On ISIS

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton outlined her strategy for countering terrorism threats in a speech at the University of Minnesota Tuesday afternoon.

Her strategy includes proactive steps for capping Islamic State recruitment in the United States, especially online, and for stopping potential jihadists from training overseas.

“Donald Trump’s proposal to ban all Muslims from entering the United States has rightly sparked outrage across our country and around the world”, she said. But given Clinton’s sizable lead over Democratic challengers Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Martin O’Malley of Maryland, she can comfortably begin shifting away from the left-wing economic populism that marked the beginning of her campaign. “As the first Somali-American police sergeant in Minnesota and probably in the country said recently, ‘Safety is a shared responsibility, so we have to work together'”.

Without naming names, Clinton denounced Republican presidential candidates who, she claimed, take advantage of the fearful climate fostered by stories in the news: “Candidates for president are calling immigrants drug runners and rapists”. Rather than live in fear, Clinton recounted, Praeli came forward publicly and joined the United We Dream movement, which advocates on behalf of children brought to the U.S.

However, Mrs. Clinton needs to be careful not to alienate the more pacifist wing of her party by not sounding too hawkish, while conveying to the electorate that she possesses a clear and distinct strategy from President Obama, whose administration has been accused of allowing the rise of the Islamic State. “They’ll say that guns are a totally separate issue – nothing to do with terrorism”.

Clinton sought the help of tech companies to help combat ISIS. She said Republican candidates are engaged in “bluster and bigotry”, which “are not credentials for becoming commander-in-chief”. She said that the San Bernardino, Calif., terrorist attack underscored the urgency, and that the randomness of the California shooting, carried out at a nondescript office park, “made us all feel it could have been anywhere, and anytime”.

Speaking from the McNamara Alumni Center on the University of Minnesota campus, the Democratic front-runner for president laid out her 5-part plan to prevent radicalization.

In the very same speech she accused Republicans of using empty words for political posturing on national security, Clinton did not offer specifics. “Clinton is still linking terrorism to gun control, still standing by failed government bureaucracy, and still echoing President Obama’s exhausted rhetoric”.

Terrorism “is really not that big of an issue to me”, said Michael Fett, a 33-year old musician who will caucus for the first time in February when he backs Sanders. “And we will defeat these new enemies just as we have defeated those who have threatened us in the past, because it is not enough to contain ISIS – we must defeat ISIS”, Clinton continued, according to CNN. “What we are looking for in this upcoming an election is a champion”. Clinton held up efforts to combat extremism among the state’s Somali-American population as a road map for police-community relations around the country.

“Waging and winning the fight against ISIS will require serious leadership”, she later added in a post to Facebook.