Jeff Sessions: No ‘fundamental contradiction’ in Trump’s ISIS plan

Trump, alluding to something of small size during a speech.

Donald Trump said that if he been President of the United States instead of President Obama, the Islamic State (ISIS) wouldn’t have expanded after the USA pulled out of Iraq because he would have taken the oil.

“He said he’s going to tell the generals to come in and give him a plan to get rid of ISIS in a year”. “It is not the American way of war to go and occupy land, steal its resources, rape its women and do the kind of things that Mr. Trump is saying”.

He said that Washington should work with any country that shares the objective of destroying the IS, adding that he wants an active Army of 540,000 troops, up from the 450,000 proposed by Obama, a Navy equipped with 350 warships and submarines and an Air Force with at least 1,200 combat aircraft.

Trump said those numbers were based on assessments by the conservative Heritage Foundation and other groups.

He said he would bolster the development of missile defences and cyber capabilities.

Independent cost estimates for Trump’s plan range from $150 billion in additional spending over 10 years, according to the bipartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, to as much as $900 billion over the same period, as assessed by Todd Harrison, a defense budget analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank.

“It implies that the USA military that’s there is a mercenary force to do these kind of things” said Hertling.

Ret. Col. Cedric Leighton agreed with Hertling’s assessment that it was an antiquated concept and also added Trump’s remarks were “something you might expect a Chinese military leader to say”.

Another flaw in Trump’s plan is the assumption that Republican members of the House of Representatives who belong to the deficit-fighting tea party movement would agree to end the budget cap.

Sessions maintained that a Trump administration would defeat ISIS.

This week, Trump provided details on how he plans to boost defense spending and increase troop strength.