In a speech the Republican presidential nominee will deliver on Monday in Ohio, Trump will argue that the country needs to work with anyone that shares that mission, regardless of other ideological and strategic disagreements.
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“Any country that shares this goal will be our allies”, Mr Trump said.
Trump on Monday is also expected to outline a new immigration policy proposal under which the US would stop issuing visas in any case where it can not perform adequate screenings.
“If I become president, the era of nation-building will be brought to a swift and decisive end”, Trump said in a foreign policy speech in Ohio. As he has previously, Trump proposed a closer relationship with Russian Federation in order to fight the Islamic State, telling the crowd, “Wouldn’t that be a good thing?”
He called for parents, teachers and others to promote “American culture” and encourage “assimilation”. He’s struggled to stay on message and consistently has overshadowed his policy rollouts, including an economic speech last week, with provocative statements, including his comments declaring that Obama was the “founder” of ISIL.
DONALD TRUMP spent the first half of a foreign policy address Monday attacking President Obama, on whom he placed primary blame for a variety of global problems.
Biden called Trump’s views “dangerous” and “un-American”. He said destroying the terrorist group would be the centerpiece of his foreign policy and he would partner with any countries that share that goal – specifically singling out Russian Federation as a nation the United States could have a better relationship with.
“The threat to their life has gone up a couple clicks”, Biden said.
“It’s not practical to start and also cost-wise it doesn’t make sense”, said Mohamed Younes, president of American Muslim Union, a nonprofit based in Paterson that serves the Muslim community. He wants to exclude anyone who sympathizes with terrorist groups, anyone with hostile attitudes towards the USA and anyone who believes in Sharia law.
He said Hillary Clinton lacks the “mental and physical stamina” to take on ISIS.
Paul Sracic, chair of the department of politics and global relations at YSU, said this was an important speech because Trump filled in some of the details about his plans.
Joint Chiefs Chairman Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford has repeatedly named Russian Federation as the major “existential’ threat to the U.S”. But they have been unable to reach an agreement on which militant groups could be targeted.
Trump also vowed to end “our current strategy of nation-building and regime change” – a criticism that extends to policies of both parties. He focused on the withdrawal of USA troops from Iraq in 2011 and the military intervention in Libya, which Clinton advocated when she was secretary of state.
Trump didn’t offer many specifics in his speech, raising a number of questions about how he would implement his proposals. In his counter-terrorism speech, Trump re-asserted his call for a ban on immigrants from countries with a “history of exporting terrorism”, saying it is impossible to properly vet people coming from those places.
The government would use questionnaires, social media, and interviews with friends and relatives to determine if people seeking to immigrate or get visas supported American values like tolerance and pluralism.
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He did say that implementing the policy overhaul would require a temporary halt in immigration from “the most risky and volatile regions of the world that have a history of exporting terrorism”. The time is overdue to develop a new screening test for the threats we face today. “We will stop processing visas from those areas until such time as it is deemed safe to resume based on new circumstances or new procedures”.
