“It’s time to begin a new phase to intensify and broaden our efforts, to smash the would-be caliphate and deny ISIS control of territory in Iraq and Syria”, Clinton said, according to Politico. Among her ideas: a no-fly zone, support for local troops, and a new authorization for the U.S.to use force in the region.
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“All of them want to represent themselves as the candidate”, Burchfield said, “and of course they assume Hillary Clinton will be the candidate for the Democratic Party”.
She also said the United States should “ramp up our efforts to support and equip viable Syrian opposition units” and acknowledged that these groups “remain understandably preoccupied with fighting the Syrian president Bashar al-Assad”.
Clinton particularly warned against ‘discriminating against Muslims, ‘ saying that ‘many of these refugees are fleeing the same terrorists who threaten us’. ISIS seems eager to add our own people to that bloodstained list.
“There is no alternative to a political transition that allows Syrians to end Assad’s rule”, Clinton said in her national-security address before the Council on Foreign Relations in New York Thursday. Several Republican candidates are now calling for a “pause” in Obama’s plan to resettle up to 10,000 Syrian refugees.
Clinton also dug in on the linguistic battle. While Bush said that step was imperative, Clinton said she would resist deploying ground forces even if the US were directly attacked.
The speech is the second major foreign policy speech delivered by Clinton in a campaign otherwise dominated by economic debate.
But even as she has embraced Obama’s domestic policy achievements – a popular move in the Democratic nominating contest – his foreign policy record has become more complicated to address. “But the threat from ISIS can not wait”, said Clinton.
There are two ways to look at her position as a born-again supporter of the surge: either she was being cravenly political in opposing the surge in 2007 or she has simply changed her mind. “Only the United States can mobilise common action on a global scale”. And in the war of words happening in Washington, Hillary was careful to align herself with Obama. She called on the United Nations to update rules aimed at choking off finances to the terror group, said asked that other Arab allies including Saudi Arabia do more to prevent their citizens from funding extreme groups. “It gives these criminals, these murderers, more standing than they deserve and it actually plays into their hands by alienating partners we need by our side”.
Clinton was considerably more detailed in her actual speech, but the air of unreality that infused Podesta’s buzzy abridgement hung over the talk.
Clinton criticized Republican Sen.
The president also said: “They no more represent Islam than any madman who kills in the name of Christianity or Judaism or Hinduism”. “I just don’t think we should have religious test about who we bring as refugees into our country”, she said. President Obama recently announced he would add “fewer than 50” elite fighters bolster efforts in Syria.
And she made news Saturday by saying that ISIS “cannot be contained; it must be defeated”.
Then-New York senator Clinton in 2002 supported George W. Bush’s push for war. In the case of Iraq and Syria, we will not be able to mobilize another such uprising without a bigger commitment on our part. Thursday’s speech is an attempt to set her record out in one place, at one time. Public opinion polls taken after the Paris attacks show a majority of Americans oppose accepting the refugees.
Instead, she said, “We should be sending more special operators, we should be empowering our trainers in Iraq, we should be… leading an air coalition, using both fighter planes and drones”. No other country can rally the world to defeat [IS].
“This is their fight, and they need to act like it”, she said.
The bottom line is Clinton didn’t need to attack Sanders, least of all on the issue of universal health care, which is one of the more popular (and, yes, expensive) parts of his agenda.
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Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio was quick to pounce on Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton for refusing to say that the U.S.is “at war with radical Islam” following the Paris attacks.
