Smoke rises over Sinjar, northern Iraq from oil fires set by Islamic State militants as Kurdish Iraqi fighters, backed by U.S.-led airstrikes, launch a major assault on Thursday, November 12, 2015. A no-fly zone would be a “strategic opportunity” that would reduce the refugee crisis in Europe by giving Syrians fleeing the country’s civil war a haven, she said. Though she still faces a primary challenge from Sen.
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Her views could appeal to centrist voters and independents who care more about national security more than the average Democratic voter.
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.
Fallon said Clinton had been instrumental in securing aid funding for the region impacted by the attacks, which included much of NY City’s banking district.
Despite her stay-the-course frame, though, Clinton’s general strategy is closer to what numerous Republican presidential candidates are offering. Bernie Sanders. About 75 percent of black voters in SC say that Clinton would do an “excellent” or “good” job in the White House, compared with about 50 percent who say the same about Sanders. “Our goal is not to deter or contain ISIS, but to defeat and destroy ISIS”.
“We can’t act as though we are shutting the door to people in need without undermining who we are as Americans”, she told a crowd of supporters in Dallas on Tuesday. Among her ideas: a no-fly zone, support for local troops, and a new authorization for the U.S.to use force in the region. “This is a time for American leadership”. “Only the United States can mobilise common action on a global scale”, she said on Thursday.
The former Secretary of State said in order to accomplish that objective the USA must recognize that ISIS is “demonstrating new ambition, reach, and capabilities” which must stopped.
“And we need to defeat them online by going after their lies and their propaganda”, Clinton said.
“We must deny them virtual territory, just as we deny them actual territory”, said Clinton.
Twice she singled out Turkey.
But, she added, the US needs to “be prepared to deploy more” special operations forces than Obama has authorized.
“Like President Obama, I do not believe that we should again have 100,000 American troops in combat in the Middle East”, Clinton said.
“It cannot be contained; it must be defeated”, she recently said.
Sanders, for his part, tried to change the terms of the debate on the topic, to keep Clinton on the defensive among a base that he has succeeded in appealing to on the basis of economic issues. “I will never hesitate to defend this nation, but I will never send our sons and daughters to a war under false pretense”. Marco Rubio of Florida support it. “So far, however, Turkey has been more focused on the Kurds than on countering ISIS”.
While parting methods with Obama to a point, she hewed intently to his choice to resettle as many as 10,000 Syrian refugees as a part of the normal D.R. welcoming position. But given her need to win the Democratic nomination, she ruled out the forces needed to implement an effective anti-ISIS strategy today.
“It is in many ways an intensification and acceleration of [the president’s] strategy”, Clinton said when asked during a Q-and-A session that followed her remarks.
Clinton echoed Obama in defending the resettlement of Syrian war refugees in the United States.
The two parties are nearly tied when it comes to the question of who does a “better job keeping the United States prosperous”.
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Here you can see a few differentiation from the Obama air strategy, which has been criticised by a few military analysts as being too timid and too concerned with civilian casualties.
