She also displayed an astounding lack of self-awareness, lamenting that despite the success in Iraq (without crediting George W. Bush’s surge) the Iraqis were later “betrayed and forgotten”.
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Instead, Clinton sought to ramp up pressure on Iraq’s Shia-led government and on Turkey to set aside old grievances.
She’ll just defeat ISIS, apparently, and then maybe get lunch.
“Like President Obama, I don’t consider that we should always once more have one hundred, 000 American troops in fight in the Middle East, that’s simply not the sensible transfer to make right here”, she stated. “We do need to be vigilant in screening and vetting any refugees from Syria”, she said Thursday, but “turning away orphans, applying a religious test, discriminating against Muslims, slamming the door on every single Syrian refugee-that is just not who we are”. “The world’s great democracies”, she said, “can’t sacrifice our values or turn our backs to those in need”.
“Accepting refugees is what America has always done”.
“There’s been a lot of talk lately about coalitions”.
Donald Trump believes Hillary Clinton’s refusal to use the phrase “radical Islam” is evidence she’s playing nice with President Obama to escape punishment for her growing email scandal.
Her views could appeal to centrist voters and independents who care more about national security more than the average Democratic voter.
Clinton, the entrance-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination for the November 2016 election, outlined an strategy that’s extra hawkish than Obama.
Even Hillary herself admitted, in a question-and-answer session afterward, that her proposal is but “an intensification, an acceleration” of the failed Obama strategy. Clinton formally kicked off her campaign at New York’s Roosevelt Island last spring in a speech that touched on her “four fights”, a reference to the “four freedoms” Roosevelt laid out in 1941. But it’s also very different from sparring with other candidates on the matter; in that light she hasn’t fared so well.
Schiff said the United States, along with allies, could create “a safe zone, or buffer zone, that would be policed on the ground by Turkish or Gulf nations and from the air by the United States and the coalition”.
She underscored that position again Thursday.
Clinton also said the United States will need help from American private industry to counter Islamic State’s propaganda abilities.
Clinton was asked by CNN’s Fareed Zakaria, who moderated a post-speech discussion, whether Obama erred in once referring to ISIS as the “JV” team – but she deflected.
“What he said was fine”, said former Sen.
“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”, Clinton said.
Clinton reiterated her support for a no-fly zone over the northern region of the country and backed the president’s use of special forces.
“Our goal is not to deter or contain ISIS, but to defeat and destroy ISIS”.
The speech is the second major foreign policy speech delivered by Clinton in a campaign otherwise dominated by economic debate.
Then-New York senator Clinton in 2002 supported George W. Bush’s push for war. Other Democratic nominees have been hesitant to stray from what President Obama is already doing in Syria. ISIL terrorists, who control parts of Syria and Iraq, have claimed responsibility for the deadly attacks.
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The former Secretary of State said in order to accomplish that objective the US must recognize that ISIS is “demonstrating new ambition, reach, and capabilities” which must stopped. And if Baghdad fails to do so, Clinton said the United States and its allies would. “She should tell the American people how she’d actually pay for it”, O’Malley said on Twitter.
