Clinton added that European countries have been reluctant in the past to share intelligence with USA agencies.
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On Thursday night, a man driving a truck plowed through a large crowd of people celebrating France’s Bastille Day in Nice, killing at 84 people and wounding many others. On Friday, a National Security spokesman said Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Lisa Monaco has kept President Barack Obama regularly apprised of the situation and investigation. “I would call it extreme vetting too”, he said.
In an interview during Fox News’ Thursday On the Record, he continued his unapologetic approach to foreign policy (like his proposed ban on Muslims entering the United States), telling Greta van Sustern, “When I come out with my non-politically correct statements, that a lot of people love, and some people are so awful, and then you have attacks like this and so many other attacks”.
“I would, I would”.
Like Trump, Clinton made clear that the U.S.is at war with terrorist groups, but asserted that engaging in boots-on-the-ground combat was not the correct approach to take.
Clinton also dismissed Trump’s criticism of the administration’s decision to allow 10,000 Syrian refugees to enter the USA because of the potential of terrorists entering the country by posing as refugees. In the old days you would have uniforms.
“Well, it sounds like here we go again”, Mr Trump said on Fox’s On the Record.
Trump said he would use North Atlantic Treaty Organisation forces to wage war on terrorist groups, adding, “I’ve been saying it: We should use North Atlantic Treaty Organisation for a goal”. But, she argued, greater intelligence gathering, not military force, was necessary. “I would be very focused on working with our partners and allies and intensify our efforts against the ideologues that pedal radical jihadism online”. “We need to strengthen our alliances and I include North Atlantic Treaty Organisation in that”. Clinton and Obama, however, have largely shied away from using the term, believing that associating terrorists with Islam helps to legitimize their interpretation of the religion.
“Our alliance with France is so strong…we need to stand strongly with them”, Clinton told O’Reilly. “So I think that we need strong, tough diplomacy, starting with our friends, to do on a bilateral basis with individual countries, collectively with the European Union, with North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and others, to do everything we need to be prepared to work with each other to ferret out these terrorists and to prevent future attacks”.
Trump wants to cut off the flow of Syrian refugees.
“I am sick at heart about what’s happened to the French people”, Clinton said. “It’s a different kind of war and we need to be smart about how we wage it and win it”. She also called in to O’Reilly’s show, but the discussion was markedly different, as she outlined a plan to strike back against ISIS, though the terrorist group still has not been confirmed as being behind the Nice attack.
“Another awful attack, this time in Nice, France”.
“As we mourn with the people of France, we must resolve to bring justice all those responsible and defeat this enemy of civilization at its source”, Pence said. “Our hearts are with the victims of what appears to be yet another unconscionable act of terror”, House Speaker Paul Ryan said in a statement.
The presumptive Democratic nominee told O’Reilly that that we have to “do more to understand that this is a war against these terrorist groups”, and that one of her priorities is to “launch an intelligence surge”.
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Vermont independent Sen. Bernie Sanders tweeted, “My thoughts are with the families and loved ones of those killed in Nice”.
