He, again, slammed Obama for refusing to use the term “radical Islamic militants”, which Trump says is a refusal to recognize the enemy and also vowed that the USA would prevail in its fight against extremists if he is elected president.
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“I’ve laid out my strategy for defeating ISIS”, Clinton said.
Other policy prescriptions Trump teed up Monday were quite conventional: An global conference with allies to halt the spread of radical Islam, an olive branch to moderate Muslim reformers in the Middle East, a domestic commission to expose the warning signs of radicalization.
Current U.S. naturalization law requires adherence to “the principles of the Constitution of the United States” and rejects advocates of a variety of ideological positions, and those with proclivities, in the judgment of immigration officials, to commit various crimes. That’s a departure from Trump’s assertion, in March, that as president he might withdraw from North Atlantic Treaty Organisation altogether.
In a speech the Republican presidential nominee was expected to deliver Monday in Ohio, Trump argued that the country needs to work with anyone that shares that mission, regardless of other ideological and strategic disagreements.
Donald Trump has said he would create a new “extreme, extreme vetting” test for immigrants.
“Any country that shares this goal will be our allies”, Trump said.
Trump himself did not clarify how officials would assess the responses to the questionnaires or how much manpower it would require to complete the vetting, but said implementing the policy overhaul would require a temporary halt in immigration from “the most risky and volatile regions of the world that have a history of exporting terrorism”. He advocated “a new screening test for the threats we face today”.
At an OH campaign stop on Monday, Donald Trump delivered what was billed as his big policy speech on counterterrorism, in which he was supposed to explain his plans to defeat ISIS. Yet this had once been one of Trump’s signature political ideas: the banning of Muslim immigration, which then became a temporary ban on Muslim immigration, which, in turn, became a ban on immigration from countries with a terrorism problem, and now in Monday’s speech has become a policy idea that is as murky as Trump’s tax returns. “We will stop processing visas from those area until such time as it is deemed safe to resume based on new circumstances or new procedures”, he said.
Trump also said he believes the United States should have seized ownership of Iraq’s oil at the conclusion of the war in Iraq.
“My administration will pursue joint and coalition military operations to crush and destroy ISIS, global cooperation to cut off their funding, expanded intelligence sharing and cyber warfare to disrupt and disable their propaganda, and their recruiting”, Trump said.
Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton’s campaign isn’t skipping a beat when it comes to Trump’s connections to Russian Federation.
Trump’s Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton and top USA government officials have warned of the dangers of using that kind of language to describe the conflict, arguing it plays into militants’ hands.
Before Trump took the stage, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani made the head-scratching assertion that “under those eight years before Obama came along, we didn’t have any successful radical Islamic terrorist attack in the U.S”.
Trump compared fighting terrorism to the Cold War, but times have changed. Instead of a Muslim ban, Trump spoke of “extreme vetting” of “people who have hostile attitudes towards our country or its principles”.
And while the Republican presidential nominee argued against nation-building in a foreign policy speech Monday, he advocated for something even more grandiose: seizing Iraq’s oil wealth in the aftermath of the US invasion in 2003 that toppled Saddam Hussein. “And these are problems like we’ve never had before”.
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LISA DESJARDINS: Hillary Clinton’s campaign responded before the speech with this ad attacking Trump’s national security credentials with his own words. In reality, Iran and Syria and many terrorist groups hate ISIS as much as the United States. Additional speeches with more details are expected in the weeks ahead, they said. “We’re gonna beat ISIS very, very quickly. folks”.
