(3) Do you agree or disagree with President Obama that the radical Islamic State group, also known as ISIS, does not represent true Islamic beliefs?
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“This is not a time for scoring political points”, she said.
And while she called for more Special Operations forces to be sent to Syria and more freedom for USA troops backing Iraqi forces, there’s no guarantee her plan would be any more successful than Obama’s.
Clinton was also not shy in doling out tough love to US friends and acid to enemies in another possible preview of her possible administration.
He said such a coalition could “confront the threats of the 21 century”, including the root causes of “these brutal acts”.
Clinton holds strong leads over Sanders on issues of who can best combat Islamic terrorism, who has the better temperament to be president and who would work most effectively with Congress.
The address came nearly a week after the terrorist attacks in Paris that killed more than 130 people, and a day after the Islamic State released an online video threatening to attack NY City.
But, he added that “the fight against ISIS is a struggle for the soul of Islam”.
This is what a President Hillary Clinton would look like. But Democrats, and Ms Clinton, could also end up underestimating it. She urged the arming of Kurds and Sunni militias, and if Baghdad objected, “the coalition should do so directly.” . Betrayed by whom, Mrs. Clinton? Both are Clinton proposals. Supposedly, if you gripe that Muslim culture is frighteningly illiberal in some respects, Team ISIS will cite it as further proof that the kuffar have been hypnotized by world Jewry into hating Islam, which will anger a few more otherwise nonviolent Muslims into becoming suicide bombers.
But in calling for America to enforce a no-fly zone in Syria, Clinton is pushing a step that Obama is resisting.
“What we have done with air strikes has made a difference, but now it needs to make a greater difference”, Clinton said.
“European nations don’t even always alert each other when they turn away a suspected jihadist… or when a passport is stolen”, she said.
Clinton criticized Republican Sen. “That is just not the smart move to make here”, she said, adding that “if we have learned anything from 15 years of war in Iraq and Afghanistan, it’s that local people and nations have to secure their own communities”. Other Democratic nominees have been hesitant to stray from what President Obama is already doing in Syria. “It would be a cruel irony indeed if ISIS can force families from their homes and then also prevent them from ever finding new ones”.
Then-New York senator Clinton in 2002 supported George W. Bush’s push for war.
It ended up putting her in the odd position of sometimes sounding more reluctant on world affairs than her more dovish democratic rivals with no foreign-policy experience.
Former Florida governor Jeb Bush on Wednesday called for the United States to “increase our presence on the ground”, in a speech in SC.
Since Saturday, he has adjusted his economic-heavy stump speech to accommodate the global alarm about ISIS following the massacre of 129 people, including one American, in Paris on November 13. Thursday’s speech is an attempt to set her record out in one place, at one time.
While Clinton wants the U.S.to lead the fight against ISIS, she is not in favor of troops being on long-term deployments in Syria.
Hillary Clinton is using her experience as Secretary of State to explain her strategy to fight ISIS.
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“This combined approach”, she said in a speech to the Council on Foreign Relations, “would help enable the opposition to retake the remaining stretch of the Turkish border from ISIS, choking off its supply lines. We must use every pillar of American power, including our values, to fight terror”, Clinton said.
