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Clinton doesn’t distance herself from Obama in ISIS speech

“We should get this done”.

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“This is not a time for scoring political points”, she said.

The effort, she said, “will require sustained commitment in every pillar of American power”.

The president is not willing to commit US forces, so he embraces a minimalist strategy against ISIS.

The Sanders campaign has just started its push to identify potential voters in Tennessee and has been calling selected Democrats to see which way they are leaning, Tyrrell said.

The Saudis, Qataris and others need to stop citizens from directly funding extremist organizations, and the UN Security Council needs to update its terror sanctions list, she said. But if this is the sort of extraordinary behavior we need to defeat ISIS, our task is much tougher than Clinton’s upbeat remarks in NY suggested.

Hillary Clinton tried to make up for a scattered performance on foreign policy during this weekend’s Democratic debate by laying out her vision to tackle the so-called Islamic State. “In the end, it didn’t matter what kind of terrorist we called bin Laden, it mattered that we killed bin Laden”.

In a big break from her presidential rivals with the GOP, Clinton called for the U.S.to continue accepting refugees from Syria. It would be a cruel irony indeed if ISIS can force families from their homes and then also prevent them from ever finding new ones.

During a speech at the Council on Foreign Relations in NY, Clinton declared that “our goal is not to deter or contain ISIS, but to defeat and destroy ISIS”. But in both cases, the Kurds are a double-edged sword that not only smites ISIS, but also threatens other key USA allies, particularly Turkey and the central government in Baghdad.

Refugees and the U.S.. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., hours before he addressed foreign policy in a speech of his own.

Presaging how Republicans plan to take on Clinton, an aide to presidential candidate and Ohio Governor John Kasich said it is hard to take Clinton seriously on the issue because conditions in Iraq and Syria worsened when she was Obama’s first-term secretary of state.

Clinton praised Obama in February, saying that “a lot of the right moves are being made”. And in June of 2015, Clinton said she “would have advised him to do exactly as I believe he is now doing”.

Liberated for a time from questions about her private email server, her honesty, her culpability in the Benghazi attack and a challenge on the left from Sanders, Clinton flexed her wonkish muscles across a map of the Middle East Thursday in a way that showcased her taste for detailed policy analysis.

Obama expressed his opposition to Clinton’s suggestion for a no-fly zone in Syria just last month, when he dismissed the proposal as a political gesture.

Clinton said she would essentially duplicate President Obama’s efforts against ISIS, but with a more aggressive posture.

On Sunday – two days after the attack in Paris – the retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson appeared on Fox News to discuss foreign policy and said he would forge a coalition with America’s traditional allies in the region to fight IS.

And despite her lead in the polls, Clinton has not won the Democratic nomination yet, and accordingly framed her differences with Obama carefully as she courts dovish Democrats.

“European nations don’t always alert each other when they turn away a suspected jihadist or when a passport is stolen”, she said. In a speech at the Citadel on Wednesday, Jeb Bush called for American boots on the ground. Sen. “I just don’t think we should have religious tests about who we bring as refugees into our country”, she said.

Clinton reiterated her support for a no-fly zone in Syria to protect refugees and rebel groups, a position advocated by Turkey that has gained little support from the Obama administration.

“ISIS is demonstrating new ambition, reach, and capabilities”.

“Nothing whatsoever”? That’s going too far even for a few Muslims.

As a Senator from NY, Clinton voted for the Patriot Act, supported military tribunals for suspected terrorists, and the war in Iraq.

“So I think there has been an evolution in their threat, and we have to meet it”.

And remember, many of these refugees are fleeing the same terrorists who threaten us. In the past several weeks local ground forces in Iraq and Syria – particularly Kurdish forces – have made significant gains against IS.

Clinton’s plan to combat the Islamic State involves air raids, but no American troops on the ground.

Clinton repeatedly referred to “radical jihadism” in her prepared comments, but said acknowledging a connection between worldwide Islamic terror networks and Islam should not be done. “Only the United States can mobilize common action on a global scale”.

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“This is a time for American leadership”. That’s 50 Special Operations Forces that Obama has authorized – hardly a significant factor in such a major conflict.

Clinton: US must push Arab leaders to confront Islamic State