Trump proposed temporarily suspending immigration “from some of the most risky and volatile regions of the world that have a history of exporting terrorism”.
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Trump alleged that the rise of ISIS is the direct result of policy decisions made by President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, his Democratic rival who served as the Secretary of State. He vowed to join any country that shares his goal of defeating the extremist group, regardless of other strategic disagreements, and named Russian Federation as a nation he would like to improve relations with. “I call it extreme, extreme vetting”, Trump said yesterday.
Also, fact checkers with the Associated Press wrote: “Trump seems to be confusing Obama and Clinton’s limited interventions, and sometimes non-interventions, with President George W. Bush’s post-9/11 regime-change efforts”.
“The threat to their life has gone up a couple clicks”, he said.
Trump was vague about what he would do differently to decimate the Islamic State in its strongholds in Iraq and Syria.
He also said Monday that he opposed nation building, but said, “We should have kept the oil in Iraq” because “in the old days, when we won a war, to the victor belonged the spoils”.
Trump’s campaign aides said the new ideological test for admission to the United States would vet applicants for their stance on issues like religious freedom, gender equality and gay rights.
They say the government would use questionnaires, social media, interviews with friends and family or other means to determine if applicants support USA values like tolerance and pluralism. The U.S. would stop issuing visas in any case where it can not perform adequate screenings.
Trump did not clarify how US officials would assess the veracity of responses to the questionnaires or how much manpower it would require to complete such arduous vetting.
As president, Trump said, he would ask the state department and department of homeland security to identify regions of the world that remain hostile to the U.S., and where screening might not be sufficient to catch those who pose a threat.
The Republican nominee said that under his administration, the detention center at Guantanamo Bay would remain open, human intelligence would be highly valued and foreign combatants would be tried in military commissions. Claiming Clinton lacks the “stamina” for this fight is just another insult that does nothing to raise Trump’s stature.
Speaking in Scranton, Pa., shortly before Trump’s speech, Clinton said Trump has no specific plan to dismantle the Islamic State. He said before Obama and Clinton, who was Obama’s first secretary of state, were in power, Libya was stable, Syria was under control, Egypt was an American ally, Iraq was seeing a reduction in violence, Iran was being choked by economic sanctions, and ISIS was close to being extinguished.
Associated Press fact checkers wrote that Trump is suggesting the US should have seized oil from Iraq, a sovereign nation, and that after major wars, this country tends to give money and aid to countries it has defeated and help re-establish governments such as it did in Japan and Germany after World War II. On Monday, he added another layer of scrutiny he would apply to would-be immigrants: “an ideological screening test”.
Obama, Clinton and top USA officials have warned against using that kind of language to describe the conflict, arguing that it plays into militants’ hands.
“Those who did not believe in our Constitution or who support bigotry and hatred will not be admitted for immigration into our country”. “We will also work closely with North Atlantic Treaty Organisation on this new mission”, the GOP nominee said as he set out how a Trump administration “will defeat radical Islamic terrorism”. Manafort’s lawyer told the Times the Trump campaign manager never received those payments, but Ukraine’s new government, which toppled Yanukovcyh, is investigating and suspects could have been part of an illegal, off-the-books scheme.
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“This proposal by its very nature would have left soldiers in place of our assets”, he said. “Our new approach – which must be shared by both parties in America, by our allies overseas and by our friends in the Middle East – must be to halt the spread of radical Islam”, Trump said in a major policy speech on defeating “radical Islam” in Ohio.
