On Sunday, Jeb Bush told NBC that Obama lacked not the resources but “the will” to defeat ISIL, and called his policy “incremental, just kind of running out the clock so the next president has to deal with this”.
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“He may pull the trigger on a few targeted killings and claim it as counterattacks – or might hit a few ISIL fixed sites in Syria or Iraq and do the same”, said Kenneth Pollack, a former Clinton administration official specializing in the Middle East now at the Brookings Institution.
It is instructive that after the attacks in January in Paris on the headquarters of Charlie Hebdo, a French satirical newspaper, and a kosher supermarket, resulting in deaths of many people, the French government adopted a series of measures created to monitor the activities of extremists living in the city and other population centers. “They’re doing that. But there’s other ways for them to get here”.
Lt General Michael Flynn reported in August this year, that following the United States military failure in Iraq in 2006, the Neocons persuaded Vice President Dick Cheney in 2007 to support initiatives to topple the Assad regime by driving “a wedge between Syria and Hezbollah”; this would be done by backing the establishment of a “Salafist principality” in eastern Syria.
Obama: “Well, no, I don’t think they’re gaining strength”.
Numerous candidates also criticized Obama’s willingness to accept thousands of Syrian refugees in response to the suffering.
In the wake of Friday’s terror attacks that killed at least 129 people, France could go before North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and invoke Article 5, which requires members to come to the aid of a fellow North Atlantic Treaty Organisation country should it come under attack.
Sunday on NY City’s AM 1260 “The Cats Roundtable” Sen. “Terrible”, Donald Trump said Saturday at a rally in Beaumont, Texas.
Republicans also complained that USA immigration policies and border security problems make the country vulnerable. “Our hearts go out to them, but we can’t endanger the security of the United States of America”. Indeed, the massacre in Paris demands a reassessment of the strategy adopted by the USA and its allies and Russian Federation and Iran in their effort to take back the territory in Syria and Iraq now occupied by adherents of a Caliphate. “ISIS is not a ‘JV team, ‘ Mr. President, they are not contained, they are at our shores and they measure their victory in body count”.
U.S. Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky called for regional powers to absorb a few of those flowing out of Syria.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said at the summit Saturday Obama’s “inexperience has put America at risk again”.
“I hope the French will invoke Article 5”.
But as the wanton murders in Paris of innocent people, including that of an American college student studying fashion design, show, Islamic State is not just content with flexing its muscle in Syria and Iraq. “This is a moment to bring us together”. Ted Cruz said the attack represented an “escalation” in the fight between western civilization and jihadists.
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“We must now face the facts”, Cruz said in a statement.
