Hillary Clinton’s response, however, was far more tempered than that of Donald Trump.
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The same happened after terror attacks in Paris in November, three months ago in Brussels and again in Nice tonight: When it comes to speed in responding publicly to such attacks via Twitter and phone interviews, Trump is drawing a clear contrast with Clinton and easily beating her to the punch every time.
CNN anchor Anderson Cooper interjected, asking the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, “When you say we’re at war, who are we at war with?”
“I’d even call this World War III”.
Asked by host Bill O’Reilly if she would be open to invoking NATO’s Article 5, which “means that an attack against one Ally is considered as an attack against all Allies”, Clinton said she is first interested in launching an “intelligence surge”.
“We need to strengthen our alliances and I include North Atlantic Treaty Organisation in that”, Clinton told O’Reilly pointedly, her GOP rival Donald Trump having suggested North Atlantic Treaty Organisation is “obsolete”.
At least 77 people were killed and 100 were injured after a truck plowed a crowd of people in the French city of Nice following Bastille Day celebrations.
Trump delayed today’s announcement of his Vice Presidential pick because of the attack.
Of course, despite agreeing on this being war, each candidate shared different ways to fight it. “It’s a different kind of war have to be smart how we wage it, but we have to be determined to win it”. “So I think we have to look at all possible approaches to doing just that”, Clinton said.
Clinton said “it is a dream” of the Islamic State to bring more USA troops into the fight.
Trump focused on immigration – and restricting immigration from possible bad actors – as well as North Atlantic Treaty Organisation cooperation.
While Clinton declined to answer O’Reilly’s question about issuing a formal declaration of war against the Islamic State, she repeatedly used the word to describe the effort to defeat the terror group.
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Police officers and rescue workers arrive at the scene.
