-Out lesbian CNN commentator Sally Kohn, in an August 15 segment on CNN’s CNN Newsroom, responding to Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s proposal that immigrants be subjected to an ideological test before being allowed into the country. He has also dismissed North Atlantic Treaty Organisation as irrelevant, but, in this speech, said it’s indispensable for defeating the Islamic State.
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“We can not let this evil continue”, Trump declared.
Trump also said he would temporarily suspend all immigration from countries where the State Department and the Department of Homeland Security conclude that adequate screening is not possible and he suggested a sharp reduction in the number of visitors from the Middle East. “Anyone who can not condemn the hatred, oppression and violence of Radical Islam lacks the moral clarity to serve as our President”. “We will defeat Radical Islamic Terrorism, just as we have defeated every threat we have faced in every age before”, he declared.
Trump, who has recently taken to calling into question Clinton’s mental fitness to serve as president, argued that Clinton “lacks the judgment … stability and temperament and moral character to lead our nation”.
The real-estate tycoon and former reality TV star promised to end the United States policy of “nation building” and called for a “new approach” in partnership with foreign allies to “halt the spread of radical Islam”.
But what, other than saying “radical Islamic terrorism” a lot, would President Trump actually do to fight the evil Muslim bogeymen he conjures up? His administration, he said, will “aggressively pursue joint and coalition military operations to crush and destroy ISIS”.
He’s struggled to stay on message and has consistently overshadowed his policy rollouts, including an economic speech last week, with provocative statements, including falsely declaring that President Barack Obama was the “founder” of the Islamic State.
On the diplomatic front, Trump made a specific pledge to work with any country willing to make a commitment to help defeat “radical Islamic terrorism”, and criticized Obama and Clinton for their reluctance to use that term.
“Mr. Trump’s speech will explain that while we can’t choose our friends, we must always recognize our enemies”, Trump senior policy adviser Stephen Miller said.
Trump, for example, is on record supporting the war in Iraq, the ouster of the Mubarak government in Egypt, and the US military offensive in Libya. “I call it extreme, extreme vetting”, Trump declared in laying out the new values-test proposal.
To prove this assertion, Mr Trump relied upon a simple before-and-after comparison.
Donald TrumpFor months, Trump has stated his plan to close off USA borders to individuals he deems as potential terrorists.
The Obama administration, by contrast, worked with the radical Muslim Brotherhood overseas and at home.
Trump forcefully assured that the military should never have gotten involved in Egypt or Libya. He vowed to keep Guantanamo Bay open, to join Russian Federation to battle terrorism in the Middle East and to launch a “commission” on radical Islam. It also proposes to cut ” immediate ” access to the Internet for terrorist groups, a measure which could deprive them of valuable information intelligence services. Instead there will be a temporary suspension of all immigration from certain countries, pending the introduction of a new ideological screening system.
“The common thread linking the major Islamic terrorist attacks that have recently occurred on our soil.is that they have involved immigrants or the children of immigrants”, the NY billionaire argued. For Trump, they’re Muslims.
“We should only admit into this country those who share our values and respect our people”, he said.
Trump compared 20th century America – a time when “the United States defeated Fascism, Nazism, and Communism” to present times, when “we have seen one brutal attack after another” before coming to a theme for which Trump has drawn criticism in the last week.
Trump said he would suspend immigration from “some of the most unsafe and volatile regions of the world, that have a history of exporting terrorism”.
Prakken argues Trump’s immigration policies would shrink the labor force, weigh down growth and fumble an opportunity to create a visa program that would meet the needs of US companies short on skilled workers.
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A Trump campaign official, in providing Afghanistan as an example of a country with many who hold inimical views, said that many individuals there “may have attitudes about women or attitudes about Christians or gays that would be considered oppressive, even violent”.
