Jeb Bush clumsily claims high ground against Trump

“The solution to the Syrian refugee problem is the one President Obama refuses to deal with … red lines and overcommitment and no action created a caliphate the size of IN and creates the brutality of the Assad regime that has forced people to leave”, he said. “I have never seen it like this, not even after 9/11”.

“We should have learned our lesson”, Pataki said. Because we shouldn’t indulge our worst impulses. The President is vacillating while Trump is delivering a few NSFW responses as shown here. It was not clear whether Carson realized that Muslims traditionally consider dogs to be unclean and refrain from contact with them.

Since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, former President George W. Bush has stood out as the Republican party’s voice of reason when it comes to talking about the role of Islam in American life.

“The terrorists are traitors to their own faith, trying, in effect, to hijack Islam itself”, the president said. “That’s not what Islam is all about”. Islam is peace. These terrorists don’t represent peace. “They represent evil and war”.

“If George W. Bush was running today and saying the things he said about Muslims, he would be an outcast in the Republican Party”, Ayoub said with a half chuckle.

In his Wednesday address, he called for more ground troops, “based on conversations I’ve had with commanders”, but declined Thursday to say how many.

And Sen. Marco Rubio (Florida) said the attacks were part of a “clash of civilizations” – essentially casting the Paris attackers as products of Muslim society rather than a radical group apart from it.

Hooper cited Trump and Carson as the candidates who set the tone and “started the bandwagon”. In the aftermath of the Paris attacks, Ohio Gov. John Kasich recently proposed a new federal agency to spread “Judeo-Christian Western values” in the Middle East.

On Thursday, the House of Representatives passed a bill that would effectively halt the acceptance of any Syrian or Iraqi refugees.

House Speaker Paul Ryan defended the measure as “urgent” given that “our national security is at stake”, telling reporters that “law enforcement top officials came to Congress and testified that there are gaps in this refugee program”.

California Rep. Mike Honda, for his part, lambasted fellow Democrat Bowers, the Roanoke mayor, for his comments on internment.

His campaign has invested heavily in the state, whose independent-minded and fiscally-focused voters mesh well with Bush’s brand of conservatism.

“When you talk about internment, you talk about closing mosques, you talk about registering people, that’s just wrong, I don’t care about campaigns”, Bush said. Now, GOP presidential candidates – mainstream figures, ranging from USA senators and governors to a billionaire businessman and a renowned neurosurgeon – see no political damage from this kind of rhetoric.

“We are in a contest of ideas against an ideology of hate, and we have to win”, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said at the Council of Foreign Relations on Thursday. “That’s not strength. That’s weakness”, he said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box”, as reported by Politico.

But then he seemed to walk that back: “I think our refugee system just needs to be explained to people so that there is great assurances that won’t happen”.

“Turning away orphans, applying a religious test, discriminating against Muslims, slamming the door on every Syrian refugee – that is just not who we are”, she said. “I crushed them”, he said.

“I would certainly implement that”.