U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton calls for more aggressive action in
“This is a worldwide fight, and America must lead it”.
The presidential candidate did not spare Iran in her speech, choosing to club the country with the IS for its support for terrorist proxies such as Hezbollah and Hamas.
But, she added, the United States needed to “be prepared to deploy more” special operations forces than Obama had authorised and give U.S. troops in Iraq more leeway to embed with Iraqi units engaged in combat.
The Republican establishment’s preferred candidate, Jeb Bush, made a foreign policy speech on Wednesday.
Bernie Sanders questioning why large Wall Street firms have contributed to the former secretary of state’s campaign, Ms. Clinton accused him of making “an attack on my integrity” and then mentioned that the World Trade Center attacks impacted lower Manhattan-arguments the mayor backed up today.
“If we have learned anything from 15 years of war in Iraq and Afghanistan, it is that local people and nations have to secure their own communities. But we can not – and should not – do it alone”, he said.
While Clinton wants the U.S.to lead the fight against ISIS, she is not in favor of troops being on long-term deployments in Syria. It concludes the majority of American voters believe Clinton and Obama are dead wrong. The president is not willing to commit USA forces, so he embraces a minimalist strategy against ISIS. When John Dickerson, the host of Face the Nation, asked her in the debate if the President’s legacy would be that he “underestimated the threat from ISIS”, Clinton hedged. Separately, the couple also donated at least $10 million to the Clinton Foundation, the investigation shows.
“Our highest priority, of course, must always be protecting the American people”.
“We need to exert pressure on Baghdad to allow the creation of a Sunni force”, Pregent said in an email. Maybe sometime in the future when we feel we have a better control over ISIS, maybe we’ve clipped their wings a little bit. Is the United States at war with radical Islamic terrorism?
When she tried to define the actual enemy the U.S. and its allies would be fighting, however, Clinton became less direct. She spoke of “radical jihadism”, calling for “a generational struggle against an ideology with deep roots”, but never quite explained just what those roots might be. This was made abundantly clear in her interview with Jeffery Goldberg in The Atlantic a year ago.
The Democratic presidential contender stated “Islam is not our adversary”, and that “Muslims are peaceful and tolerant people” who “have nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism”. The real reason you can’t say “radical Islamic terrorism” is that lots of Republicans use that phrase.
One of the Republican candidates, Sen. This statement served to distance Clinton from the long-ridiculed Obama claim that the terrorist group had been “contained”. She did not spell out the consequences if they failed to do so.
Clinton called for a ramped up bombing campaign against ISIS.
Clinton’s main challenger for the Democratic nomination, is also steadfast in his opposition to American involvement in “perpetual warfare” in the region, and Clinton’s speech Thursday will put both her similarities and differences with Sanders on display. That can only happen to the political process, so our efforts should be focused on ISIS, and yes, there are other terrorist groups, al-Nusra, whom you mentioned, is that particularly lethal fighter.”QUESTION: “So, no fight against Assad for now?”CLINTON: “There – we have to prioritize, and we had an opportunity, perhaps, I won’t say that it would’ve worked”.
As with all things Clintonian, she left herself an exit, reportedly insisting during post-speech questioning at the Council on Foreign Relations that her hawkish flight away from Obama’s policy was simply an “intensification and acceleration” of it (The Guardian, November 19). She began her remarks by invoking the attacks in the context of the recent violence from ISIS.