Republican presidential candidates moved quickly this weekend to put national security at the top of their campaign agendas in the wake of the Paris terrorist attacks.
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“This president has completely abandoned ship”, the Republican presidential hopeful told reporters at the Sunshine Summit in Florida.
“President Obama and Hillary Clinton’s idea that we should bring tens of thousands of Syrian Muslim refugees to America: it is nothing less than lunacy”, the Texas senator said, in an interview with Fox News.
Addressing immigration, Santorum said he supports a no-amnesty approach, and he blasted critics who said requiring undocumented immigrants who are already here to leave is not an unreasonable request. If the administration does proceed with its plan to admit the refugees, Carson said, Islamic State leaders would be stupid not to try to plant terrorists among them.
“I don’t think it’s unreasonable to go through the process”.
On education, Santorum said he regularly tells youngsters to stay away from college and consider vocational work.
The businesswoman focused on the Islamic terrorist attacks which rocked Paris on Friday. “We created a clear and pretty compelling strategy, and when we acted on it, we didn’t change the mission”, he said.
All members of a California-based band that was to perform at the Paris venue where one of Friday night’s deadly attacks occurred are safe and have been accounted for, a USA official briefed by the Justice Department…
“I would be launching a major offensive against ISIS right now”, Santorum added.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich said the US should urge North Atlantic Treaty Organisation to invoke Article 5, a provision that says an attack on one North Atlantic Treaty Organisation ally – such as France – is an attack against all of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and its member states. “And in Syria it – they’ll come in, they’ll leave”, Obama said.
In SC, Cruz advocated a similar course of action and invoked a familiar Republican exemplar, saying: “What is the answer to radical Islamic terrorism? That is the only appropriate resolution to this”.
“As commander in chief, I will invest in our military, honor their sacrifice, value their service and listen to their advice”, Fiorina said. The next thing that would happen would be using overwhelming air power. “And now we’re seeing the consequences…The public relations value that the president gives ISIS every day by engaging in a war that he has no intention of winning is what you saw in France yesterday”. It is pinprick air assault.
The debate’s early exchanges suggested that she hadn’t figured out how to harness her record as an advantage rather than a liability – a resume that exposes her to attacks on President Barack Obama’s perceived policy weaknesses during her time working for him in his first term. It makes for a good shot on CNN, but it doesn’t actually do anything to stop the terrorists …
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According to US geopolitical commentator Dean Henderson, the United States and its allies have encouraged the spread of the ISIL terrorist group in the Middle East to create a “perpetual war” in the region and advance the American military-industrial complex.
