“All too often I’m asked about a “poll” put out by a liberal organization that says the American people disagree with our common-sense reforms to fix our country”, Trump said in the email. All actions should be oriented around this goal and any country which shares this goal will be our ally. “We cannot always choose our friends but we can never fail to recognize our enemies”. He vowed to partner with any country that shares his goal of defeating the extremist group, regardless of other strategic disagreements, and named Russian Federation as a nation he would like to improve relations with.
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Donald Trump painted the Middle East as an oasis of stability before Hillary Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state, arguing that she and President Barack Obama “launched” the Islamic State group onto the world. Donald says that if he wins, he will bring the current era of nation building “to a quick and very swift end”.
The report came as Trump prepared to give a foreign policy speech on Monday.
Mr Trump also promised to work with North Atlantic Treaty Organisation in the fight against militants.
The Journal’s editorial board, which generally favours Republicans, has been critical of Trump and has questioned his conservative credentials, but its warning on Monday was its strongest attack yet. Wouldn’t that be a good thing? She’s been bolstered by a steady stream of Republican national security experts who argue the billionaire businessman lacks the temperament and knowledge of world affairs to be president.
Never mind for a moment the preposterousness of Trump’s claim, which ignores both the Geneva Convention and the historical fact that the Bush administration had a hard enough time selling a war that they assured the public and their Middle Eastern allies was not about oil. “Anyone who can not name our enemy is not fit to lead our country”, he said, criticizing President Barack Obama’s unwillingness to use the words “radical Islam” when referring to terrorism.
Trump did not renew his controversial call for a ban on all Muslim immigrants.
The senior campaign official who previewed Trump’s speech did not address Trump’s initial description of the ban, but described the current proposal as one of withholding visas for individuals from any country “where we can not perform adequate screenings” and where there is heavy terrorist activity.
Trump’s proposals were the latest version of a policy that began with his unprecedented call to temporarily bar foreign Muslims from entering the country a religious test that was criticized across party lines as un-American. He said attacks involving “immigrants or the children of immigrants” underscore the need to implement “extreme vetting”.
Trump’s efforts to focus on the economy last week ran afoul following off-the-cuff comments he made at rallies.
But it’s unclear how Trump’s system would determine a potential immigrant’s position on what could be highly subjective issues.
On Monday, the Republican nominee solicited his supporters to take a “Mainstream Media Accountability Survey” so he can “have my own poll that shows that the American people disagree with the dishonest media!” “‘There are a lot of voters in NY who go for a candidate in one office on this party and a candidate for another office on this party line, so we’ll have to wait and see”.
The Clinton campaign also called on Trump to disclose ties between campaign manager Paul Manafort and what it called “pro-Kremlin elements in Ukraine”.
“Hillary Clinton still gets a free pass from the media as she continues to lie about sending classified information on her secret server”. In addition to calling for improved cybersecurity, Clinton has proposed intensifying a coalition air campaign against ISIS and providing more support for partners engaged in ground operations.
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The Republican nominee has made stricter immigration measures a central part of his proposals for defeating the Islamic State, a battle he said Monday is akin to the Cold War struggle against communism.
