‘You have to get the information from these people.
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“I would exclude the people coming in from Syria that don’t have documentation”.
Republican rival John Kasich, the governor of OH, struck a more diplomatic tone after the attacks, pledging to “redouble our efforts with our allies” and saying the United States “must strengthen our alliances” in the face of acts of terror. The attacks came four days after the arrest in Brussels of Paris terror suspect Salah Abdeslam. But, as with many of Trump’s opinions, anything of value that he did say was quickly overshadowed by the way he chose to say it: as an insult.
Neither Donald Trump nor Ted Cruz is correct in their approaches to battling radical Islamists the United States, famed Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz said Thursday. While citizens of Brussels mourn attack victims, Donald Trump calls it a terrible city. “The idea that you can identify people who are a risk based upon their religion or the way they look is completely fallacious. They don’t need to resort to torture”.
Terrorism expert Malcom Nance said Trump’s heated rhetoric was endangering USA intelligence and armed forces.
Still, the most shocking declaration – or not so shocking, since we’re talking about Trump here – was related to the use of torture for people who have information on terrorists. “Waterboarding would be fine, and if they could expand the laws, I would do a lot more than waterboarding”, he said.
“Frankly, the waterboarding, if it was up to me, and if we changed the laws or had the laws, waterboarding would be fine”, the real estate mogul said on the Today show on Tuesday, referencing the practice President Obama banned in 2009. Flags are flying half-mast across the European Union today, while Donald Trump calls Brussels a “horrible city”.
Guthrie asked Trump if he believes if torture works in a case like this, and he said, “Yes, I am in that camp”.
The reactions, coming on a day when three more states will hold nominating contests, mostly mirrored the input the candidates have offered in response to previous attacks, such as the massacre in Paris last fall. “By promoting stereotypes about Muslims who are American citizens, can potentially serve as a recruitment tool for ISIS”. We’re allowing thousands and thousands of these people into our country we’re going to have nothing but problems, as sure as you’re sitting there.
Trump also took the opportunity to criticize “liberal policies” that he blamed for the tension and fear surrounding the refugee crisis.
Later, Kasich called on President Barack Obama, now on a foreign trip to Cuba, to return to the U.S. And this is going to happen in the United States. He said he would not build ties between Muslim communities and the USA but rather said it was Muslims responsibility to bring concerns about possibile terrorist activities to the attention of authorities.
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“NATO should join with the United States in utterly destroying ISIS, ” Cruz told reporters, using an acronym for the Islamic State, “and I would note that North Atlantic Treaty Organisation is ready to act in a way that our president is not”.
