The Associated Press noted that at a New Hampshire town hall last week she said that she did not now support seeking a declaration of war against the Islamic State and she deflected a question about it during the debate. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Martin O’Malley, the former mayor of Baltimore and governor of Maryland. While all three have expressed their condolences for the people of Paris, the debate will provide a forum to discuss how the USA might prevent such an attack from happening at home.
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Clinton fired back and said that Sanders had impugned her integrity.
“All of the other issues we want to deal with depend on us being secure and strong.”
Clinton said the United States was not at war with Islam, Sanders said he did not think the term used was important and O’Malley said it was unnecessarily offensive to Muslims in the United States, who were the first line of defense in the fight against terrorism. But she emphasized, “This can’t be an American fight”. Clinton disagreed and said that was unfair to countries like Jordan, who have made a great effort. She laid responsibility for the power vacuum in the Middle East that allowed Islamic State militants to grow in strength at the feet of regional governments.
The debate creates a challenge for Clinton, as it magnifies her public split with Obama on his approach to Syria.
Bernie Sanders saying IKE was a socialist. Sanders brought up a great point that much of the military spending is being wasted and not being properly used to target the terrorist threat. “And then on top of that, we’ve got a corrupt campaign finance system in which millionaires and billionaires are pouring huge sums of money into super PACS heavily influencing the political process”, Sanders said. “It also give her a way of contrasting herself with her Democratic opponents who have not had the kind of experience that lends to foreign policy credibility”, Goldford said.
The disastrous invasion of Iraq … has unraveled the region completely and led to the rise of al-Quaeda and to ISIS. Now in fact, what we have got to do… CBS News is hosting the debate in conjunction with CBS’ Des Moines affiliate, KCCI, and the Des Moines Register.
Martin O’Malley saying Donald Trump was an “immigrant bashing carnival barker”. ISIS demonstrated final evening the “new face of battle and warfare”, he stated. And there is no nation on the planet better able to adapt to this change than our nation.
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Here were a few highlights, beginning with how each of the candidates responded to an opening question about news from Paris. “And can O’Malley say anything that makes him stand out and win him a second look from a lot of people?” He added that we need to invest in better human intelligence in the future. He later said that when dealing with global conflict, we shouldn’t just consider getting rid of the primary leaders, but consider the second and third consequences that will follow.
