Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush wants the United States to devote more resources to the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) – including boots on the ground.
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Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush is a warmonger who serves the interests of Israel, as well as world bankers and arms manufacturers, says an American analyst.
Bush did not offer detailed specifics in his prepared remarks. Pressed further on how, Bush shrugged his shoulders and replied: “I think you can prove it. If you can’t prove it, then, you know, you err on the side of caution”.
It also included a few new points, including Bush’s desire to update the United States’ nuclear weapons capacity.
Bush, also a Republican presidential candidate, said Tuesday that’s not the appropriate response.
“Every other candidate, maybe with the exception of (Ohio Gov.) John Kasich, is in the witness protection program because they sense the anger and they’re anxious about it”, he said.
Bush also laid into his rivals, saying he doesn’t trust Donald Trump to occupy the Oval Office, and described himself as “more consistent” and “less bellicose” than Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, a pair of first-term US senators running for president.
In keeping with the overall Republican critique of Obama for being too passive in the face of worldwide crises, Bush called for a more active US role.
“Let there be no doubt, this will not be easy”, Bush said.
The coordinated terrorist attacks across Paris last week, which left 129 dead and scores more wounded, has provided Bush with an opening to make the case more clearly and forcefully than he has before: that his leadership skills and experience make him best equipped to be commander in chief.
Mr Bush plans to restore $1 trillion in cuts to the USA military, add 40,000 troops to the US Army, 4,000 to the US Marines and boost relations with North Atlantic Treaty Organisation nations as well as the Middle East and Asia.
Bush not only criticized the Obama administration, but turned his attacks on Hillary Clinton, jumping on the Democratic frontrunner’s comments about how the aftermath of the Paris attacks “cannot be America’s fight”.
Bush says he supports accepting women and children and orphans of any religion as well as Syrian Christians because of the persecution he said they’ve suffered as a minority in that country.
“If there’s any kind of concern, we shouldn’t allow people in”, he said.
Bush’s belief is that voters eventually will come around to a serious, policy-minded candidate like him but with the Iowa caucuses kicking off the 2016 election season on February 1, his plan has not helped him in polls.
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“When I hear political leaders suggesting that there should be a religious test for admitting which person fleeing which country”, Obama said at the G20 press conference in Turkey, “when a few of these folks themselves come from other countries, that’s shameful”.
