He, again, slammed Obama for refusing to use the term “radical Islamic militants”, which Trump says is a refusal to recognize the enemy and also vowed that the USA would prevail in its fight against extremists if he is elected president.
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Trump’s address comes during a trying stretch for his presidential campaign.
“Our new approach – which must be shared by both parties in America, by our allies overseas and by our friends in the Middle East – must be to halt the spread of radical Islam”, Trump said in a major policy speech on defeating “radical Islam” in Ohio.
But Vice President Joe Biden, who on Monday hit the 2016 campaign trail with Clinton for the first time, trashed Trump as unqualified for the White House and accused him of endangering the lives of United States troops.
Trump called the Obama-Clinton doctrine a complete failure and put forward his own to defeat radical Islamic terrorism.
“If my son were still in Iraq and I say to all those who are there, the threat to their life has gone up a couple of clicks”, he said.
Trump said he believed the United States could find “common ground with Russia” in the fight against the IS group – a claim bound to do little to silence critics who accuse him of being soft on Russian President Vladimir Putin. Still, he directly blamed the president and Clinton, who served as secretary of state, for backing policies that “unleashed” the group, including withdrawing USA troops from Iraq in late 2011.
“She also lacks the mental and physical stamina to take on ISIS”, he said, “and everything else it takes to turn our country around”.
Trump was vague about what he would do differently to decimate IS in its strongholds in Iraq and Syria. 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.
Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton mocked Donald Trump’s national security plans at a rally with Vice President Joe Biden in Pennsylvania.
Russian Federation and the USA have been discussing greater coordination in Syria, where IS is part of a volatile mix of groups fighting for power.
Following the June shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, Trump appeared to introduce a new standard, vowing to “suspend immigration from areas of the world where there is a proven history of terrorism against the United States, Europe or our allies, until we fully understand how to end these threats”.
In the final months of his administration, Bush negotiated an agreement with the Iraqi government that called for all US troops to leave the country by December 2011.
Trump didn’t offer many specifics in his speech, raising a number of questions about how he would implement his proposals.
U.S Republican Presidential nominee, Donald Trump, says that he will enforce an “extreme vetting” of immigrants if he is voted to the White House.
Republican Donald Trump said on Monday he would work closely with North Atlantic Treaty Organisation allies to defeat Islamic State militants if he wins the White House, reversing an earlier threat that the United States might not meet its obligations to the Western military alliance. Trump did not clarify how US officials would assess the veracity of responses to the questionnaires or how much manpower it would require to complete such arduous vetting. He did not identify those regions, saying instead that he would ask the State Department and the Department of Homeland Security to do so once he is elected. “The time is long overdue to develop a new screening test for the threats we face today”.
During his national security speech in Ohio, Trump also reversed his stance on working with North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, saying they’ve changed their policies to more adequately handle terror threats.
Trump’s first announced his call for banning Muslims previous year during the GOP primary.
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Under Mr Trump’s plan, citizens from countries with a history of terror will be banned but it is not clear which nations.
