Graham warned that Friday’s attacks in Paris will be repeated – and on a larger scale – within the United States unless ISIS is destroyed. “The good people are leaving because they’re being raped and murdered and a few terrorists are trying to get in their ranks”. White House officials ruled out sending combat ground troops into Syria, and made no indication it was rethinking a no-fly-zones.
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“I wouldn’t put that in the realistic category”, he said.
More 250,000 people have been killed in the clashes between rebels and forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad. “It’s not that we don’t want to, it’s that we can’t. There’s no background check system in the world that allows us to find that out because who do you call in Syria to background check them?”
Bush said in his view, the USA should limit refugees by focusing on admitting Syrian Christian refugees.
The crisis in Syria, where the Islamic State group has taken root, was already high on the agenda at the meeting of 20 leading industrialized and emerging-market nations.
“We play into the ISIL narrative when we act as if they are a state and we use routine tactics used to fight a state that is not a state”, Obama said using the alternative name for the terrorist group.
“As I said from the start, it’s going to take time”. “That’s not who we are”. It would be foolish for them not to do that. “And we’ll stand with them”. At an event with Central Iowa Democrats, Clinton talked ISIS, calling the terrorist group an “unusually effective threat”.
“It’s best that we don’t shoot first and aim later”, he said.
Clinton suggested “pulling countries off the sidelines so that they work with us and contribute to this ongoing struggle against radical jihadism”.
“When you have drought, when people can’t grow their crops, they’re going to migrate into cities”, Sanders said.
Bobby Jindal, the Louisiana governor, joined other state chief executives voicing concerns over refugees entering the county, to Obama with pointed questions about the safety and screening measures in place.
“We must be able to work collaboratively with others”.
Obama continued ticking off actions the USA had taken. “Terrible”, Donald Trump said Saturday at a rally in Beaumont, Texas. And although thousands of IS fighters have been killed, the U.S.-led coalition campaign has had only limited successes. But that and similar moves to intensify USA support for local forces is unlikely to produce quick results.
“Slamming the doors in their faces would be a betrayal of our values”, Obama said.
Fiorina added that “just yesterday hours before the Paris attacks began and against all the evidence, President Obama declared ISIS “contained” and took a victory lap”. “I see the world as it really is, and it’s time for a president who sees the world as it really is, not how he wishes it would be”, Christie said.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich said the USA should urge North Atlantic Treaty Organisation to invoke Article 5, a provision that says an attack on one North Atlantic Treaty Organisation ally – such as France – is an attack against all of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and its member states.
This is while US Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes said on Sunday that it is up to Paris to make the call.
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On Friday, Texas Sen. Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, who have Cuban heritage. In addition to the terror spree in Paris, the group has claimed responsibility for attacks in Lebanon and Turkey, as well as the downing of a Russian airline in Egypt.
