The blistering critique of the Obama administration’s fight against the the terrorist army known as Islamic State, which has taken credit for the Paris massacre, served as a preview of questions Mrs. Clinton could face her in a candidate’s debate here later Saturday.
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“ISIS is creation of a political decision by Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama to abandon Iraq against all of our generals’ recommendations, against all of the policy recommendations”, Santorum told Florida GOP activists at the Sunshine Summit showcase of Republican presidential hopefuls. Lindsey Graham has called for a US force of 10,000 on the ground.
“Speaking at the start of the G20 here on the Turkish Riviera, Obama said the two-day summit has assumed new importance as leaders work to develop a response to the massacre”.
“This is an attack on all of humanity and the universal values we share”, Obama said from the White House, where he spoke after a slew of attacks that left dozens of people dead and injured. “Because why wouldn’t they infiltrate them with people who are ideologically opposed to us?”
Obama, who held a meeting of his National Security Council on Saturday, said after the attacks that the United States is working with France and other allies “to bring these terrorists to justice, and to go after any terrorist networks that go after our people”. France is our oldest ally. “And we want to be very clear that we stand together with them in the fight against terrorism and extremism”.
Vice President Biden: “I join President Obama in offering my deepest condolences to all those wounded and to the families who lost loved ones in today’s terrorist attacks in Paris”. It’s heartbreaking. Outrageous…. Such savagery can never threaten who we are.
Clinton has always been seen as more hawkish than President Obama, and that’s something that hurt her in 2008, especially in a state like Iowa, which has its caucus roots in the anti-war movement. “I’m running for president because as I go around this nation I talk to a lot of people”.
Former Virginia governor Jim Gilmore told the BBC that he put the finishing touches on his new speech on the plane to Florida that morning. I saw a girl hit right in front of me.
For Republicans, a different story.
Other candidates have shied away from specifically outlining proposed US military involvement, though several found consensus against bringing in Syrian refugees. He hopes this will play to the strength of his candidate, Jeb Bush.
“The conversation on the periphery of the presidential debate needs to be upgraded as well about what the role of the NSA is”, Bush said. We must anticipate these threats before they happen. What’s the balance between our own civil liberties and keeping us safe? “That- we need to have another conversation about that, because I think we have diminished our capabilities at the wrong time”.
But Dickerson then interjected, noting that Rubio didn’t say the war was against all of Islam, but “radical Islam”. Without naming Trump, who has vaulted to the top of the polls, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said he understands the anger that many GOP voters feel.
The reason Hart sees an advantage for former Secretary of State Clinton is that a greater focus on terrorism will cause voters to look even more for a “heavy and strong hand at the tiller”. “On an afternoon like this afternoon we wouldn’t be anxious about ISIS slipping across our borders to commit unspeakable acts of violence” if the government had addressed the issue, he said.
He suggested that he and U.S. Sen.
Mr. Cruz vowed that if elected president he would use overwhelming US air power and arm Kurdish fighters to defeat the Islamic State, which controls a huge swath of territory in Iraq and Syrian and has waged attacks throughout the world.
“I think that the Paris attacks are basically the 9/11 for France”, he said.
Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina said she would increase support to US allies in the Middle East, including more weapons and better intelligence-sharing.
“That’s because there’s no leadership”, Carson said.
John Kasich: He led an impromptu prayer at an event Friday night in New Hampshire, per the Washington Post. “The way you prevent these kind of things from happening is that you know they’re going to happen….” “Who in the hell is in charge of scrutinizing these people?” he asked.
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Leaders of the emerging-market bloc of BRICS yesterday strongly condemned the recent terror attacks in Paris.
