“We know how important the federal government is and the crucial role they play in urban cities, And I know that Hillary Clinton will be a president who gets it.”, stated Barry, a mayor who is well-known for her desires to expand prekindergarten, reduce gun violence in cities and increase transit options.
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Members of the Obama administration, including Clinton when she was secretary of state, have deliberately avoided using the term “Islamic” or “Islamist” in reference to terrorists or terrorism emanating from the Islamic world.
Then-presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton attends Citizens of Zion Missionary Baptist Church and meets with black religious community leaders January 17, 2008, in Compton, Calif.
Clinton told the Council on Foreign Relations in NY she would intensify the fight against Daesh if she is elected president next year.
“A more effective air campaign is necessary, but not sufficient”, Clinton explained.
Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush said in a SC address Wednesday that the USA should send more troops to the Middle East to fight the IS group. “No other country can rally the world to defeat ISIS and win the generational struggle to defeat jihadism”, she said. The conflict with the Islamic State “requires sustained commitment from every pillar of American power”, 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”, she said. Beyond “reversing defense sequestration”, Rubio’s plan to fight Isis seems to revolve mostly around a fuzzy coming together of “a multinational coalition of countries willing to send troops into Iraq and Syria to aid local forces on the ground”.
“That is just not the smart move to make here”, the former Secretary of State said, according to Politico. “They’re on the no-fly list but they often aren’t checked or can get guns online, so we do have to take it serious and have to be vigilant”.
“Countering violent extremism and destroying ISIS must be done primarily by Muslim nations”, he said.
She said that in the contest of ideas against an ideology of hate it must be clear that “Islam is not our adversary”. As I outlined, we need to crush their territorial domain, and we need to try to secure the entire border between Syria and Turkey.
Republicans have seized on Clinton’s refusal to say that the enemy is “radical Islam”, calling her phrasing at the debate weak-kneed.
Clinton also said the United States must do more to stop ISIS’ growth online, and called on Silicon Valley and those in the private sector to help.
“President Obama, Hillary Clinton and other senior Democrats refuse to say America is at war with “radical Islamic terrorism” for fear of insulting all Muslims, but voters beg to disagree”, Pew writes.
Her model, she made clear, is the success of the 2007 “surge” in Iraq which she opposed at the time but now lauds: “In the first Sunni awakening in 2007, we were able to provide sufficient support and assurances to the Sunni tribes to persuade them to join us in rooting out al-Qaida”.
Clinton’s vote in favor of the Iraq War divided her and Obama in the 2008 election and was a decisive reason she lost the nomination.
“We can not allow terrorists to intimidate us into abandoning our values and our humanitarian obligations”, she said.
Clinton said European nations need to to improve intelligence sharing, called for a no-fly zone over northern Syria to cut off supplies and, drawing a distinction to Republican candidates, said the United States should house Syrian refugees. Maybe sometime in the future when we feel we have a better control over ISIS, maybe we’ve clipped their wings a little bit.
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Later, when asked, she even defended Obama’s past description of ISIS as a “JV squad”-a phrase Republicans won’t let him forget-by saying that ISIS today is much different than it was when the president made the comments”.
