While laying out her plan for how the US should fight ISIS on Thursday, Hillary Clinton managed to say she sided with President Obama, while at the same time offering a plan that appears more in line with that of her Republican rivals.
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In NY on Thursday, the Democratic front-runner called for a “new phase” in a more intense USA and allied campaign to smash ISIS. She called for more planes and more bombs, more special forces, and arming and equipping local proxy forces.
“It has been reported that Qatar will spend up to $200 billion on the 2022 World Cup, including the construction of an enormous number of facilities to host that event – $200 billion on hosting a soccer event, yet very little to fight ISIS”, he said.
She went on: “The obsession in a few quarters with a clash of civilizations, repeating the specific words ‘radical Islamic terrorism, ‘ isn’t just a distraction, it gives these criminals, these murderers, more standing than they deserve”.
The former secretary of state also pointedly reversed her statement from five days ago during the Democratic presidential debate that the Islamic State group threat “cannot be an American fight”. “Islam is not our adversary”, Clinton argued.
Instead, Hillary referred repeatedly to “radical jihadism” as the enemy we must defeat. Thomas Nides, Clinton’s deputy Secretary of State, was also seated in the front row.
“Hillary Clinton has demonstrated she is the wrong person to take on and defeat the growing threats facing the United States”.
Asked whether it would really be possible to resist calls for such action in the wake of a terror attack on USA soil, Clinton conceded there would be enormous pressure.
During the debate, Ms. Clinton highlighted that she received many contributions from women, and that her Wall Street connections sent a message to al Qaeda.
“Too often the dots never get connected”. Republican National Committee spokesman Michael Short said she “can’t walk away from President Obama’s failing ISIS strategy because she helped craft it and even praised it”.
“It cannot be contained; it must be defeated”, she recently said.
Sanders said that he supported continuing to allow refugees to resettle in the United States from Iraq and Syria, given the current strong vetting process in place.
She underscored that position again Thursday.
That said, Ms Clinton is much more assertive than Mr Obama on the need to project U.S. power and was often frustrated with the president’s reluctant style of leadership on the global stage.
When American politicians consider solutions to the threat posed by Isis, they tend to favor abstractions over policy detail because, although Americans want to do more to root out Isis, we’re afraid of getting involved in another quagmire in the Middle East. Betrayed by whom, Mrs. Clinton?
“She’s saying ‘don’t question me for the money I’ve taken on my campaign because they donated on 9/11.’ That’s ridiculous”, said Riches.
Clinton criticized Republican Sen.
There additionally ought to be no-fly zones over Syria and protected zones for individuals fleeing the violence, she added.
Then-New York senator Clinton in 2002 supported George W. Bush’s push for war.
To be able to do this, Clinton proposed an expanded air war and an “intelligence surge”, among other efforts against the ISIS. “We should not stop pressing until Turkey, where most foreign fighters cross into Syria, finally locks down its border”.
“We have a president who refused to use the term the other day and of course, [Clinton] is concerned that if she angers the president she’s going to end up being indicted”, the Republican presidential hopeful told supporters in Spartanburg, S.C., Friday.
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The United States presently has 3, four hundred troops in Iraq and is sending greater than 50 extra who’re particular operations forces.
