“But she didn’t want to use the term, she refused to use – all three of them refused to use the term radical Islam terrorism”. Ted Cruz, have said that only Christian refugees should receive any US assistance.
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Sure enough, team Rubio posted a video on YouTube Sunday contrasting Clinton’s remark with Rubio’s young-man-who-lived-paycheck-to-paycheck-and-had-six-figure-student-loans riff from the first Republican presidential debate. “If I’m our nominee, we will be the party of the future”.
Rubio continued: “This is a clash of civilizations…” “They do not hate us because we have military assets in the Middle East. These are individuals motivated by their faith”.
STEVE SCHMIDT: When you look at the strength and resolve shown by Democratic presidents in the history of this country, Franklin Roosevelt, John Kennedy, American leaders, absolutely willing to talk directly and honestly to the American people about the nature of the threat and then you look at the fecklessness of these answers by these candidates, simply shocking.
Trump, explaining his strategy to defeat ISIS, said, “we have a president that doesn’t even use the term and won’t use the term radical Islamic terrorism”.
“France is at war”, Hollande said in France. But he specifically rejected the rhetoric espoused by politicians such as Rubio and, closer to home, the far-right leader Marine Le Pen.
Clinton, liberal US Senator Bernie Sanders and former Maryland governor Martin O’Malley united in calling for the destruction of the jihadists accused of massacring at least 129 people in the French capital. “We need to have a resolve that will bring the world together to root out the kind of radical jihadist ideology that motivates organizations like ISIS, a barbaric, ruthless, violent jihadist terrorist group”.
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This admission did not come at the expense of tough action.
