“We can’t do this alone… but we can lead”, Bush said. “The United States – in conjunction with our North Atlantic Treaty Organisation allies and more Arab partners – will need to increase our presence on the ground”.
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Bush also said he would remove Syrian President Bashar Assad from power to bring long-term political stability to the country, which is also a priority of this administration. He said, “protect people who were vulnerable”, and so I think it is very important for us right now, particularly those who are in leadership, particularly those who have a platform and can be heard, not to fall into that trap.
He had said in a speech in August USA forces ought to be used to help identify bombing targets, and held out the possibility for ground forces.
“Apparently they’re scared of widows and orphans coming into the United States of America as part of our tradition of compassion”, the president said of the Republicans while visiting the Philippines.
Billionaire businessman Donald Trump, another candidate for the Republican nomination in the November 2016 election, told MSNBC he backed a few US troops in the region but would instead focus on targeting Islamic State’s oil and banking operations.
As he rolled out a national security agenda Wednesday focused on meeting the growing terror threat, Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush railed against what he called the “absence of American leadership” that allowed the rise of the terrorist army known as the Islamic State. “We absolutely need the Saudis and the Jordanians and the Egyptians and the Gulf states”.
Bush’s argument coalesced around a declaration that, “we are at war with radical Islamic terrorism” and a need to restore America as the “leader and indispensable power of the free world”.
Initially envisioned as a speech on how to “rebuild the military”, Bush now plans to discuss how the Paris attacks “only reinforce the critical nature of that policy”, the campaign said.
If Bush meant that he wanted to undo sequestration and go back to 2012 spending levels, as Sen.
During a speech at a SC military college on Wednesday, Jeb Bush called for a U.S.-led coalition to use “overwhelming force” to destroy ISIS and end the “war of our time”. The terrorist group controls territory in Syria and Iraq and claimed responsibility for Friday’s coordinated attacks in Paris.
“In the span of a decade, our government will have withheld a trillion dollars from our national defence”, Bush will say. It’s a complicated topic – considering that Bush’s brother, former President George W. Bush, made a decision to invade Iraq in 2003.
“I believe the best policy for creating the conditions for peace is to develop the capability to wage war with crushing force”.
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“I think what we’re trying to do is lift up the stories of Syrian refugees who have already settled here in the United States”, said Will Haney, associate director of external affairs for the Immigration and Refugee Program at Church World Services. “I think you can prove it. You can’t prove it, then you know, you err on the side of caution”. At the barbecue joint, the younger Bush recalled the war as “one of the most effective victories, where we had a strategy, we act(ed) on a strategy, we won and we left”. “It all seems to be let’s bluster harder, let’s shake our fist harder, let’s spend more money, but really not change in strategy from what the current administration says”.
