He said destroying the terror 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 USA could have a better relationship with.
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The Republican nominee has made stricter immigration measures a central part of his proposals for defeating the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, a battle he said Monday is akin to the Cold War struggle against communism.
Introduce an ideology test for new immigrants arriving to the US. “We have a president that doesn’t want to say the words”, Trump complained.
Make alliances with all countries fighting against terrorism. North Atlantic Treaty Organisation invoked Article 5, its collective self-defense mechanism, for the first time in its history to offer support to the United States after the September 11, 2001, attacks.
He has also called for the shutting down of access to the internet and social media for those aligned with Islamic State, which holds territory in Syria and Iraq.
Trump stated that the Democratic Party who has been leading the U.S. for the past 8 years is responsible for the lack of stability in the Middle East, noting events in Syria, Libya, Egypt and Iran as examples: “The rise of ISIS is the direct result of policy decisions made by President Obama and Secretary Clinton”. During his speech Trump called for “extreme vetting” of those looking to immigrate to the United States.
He said that under his presidency, the State Department and Homeland Security Department would create a list of blacklisted regions for travel to the US.
“It will be the latest version of a policy that began with Trump’s unprecedented call to temporarily bar foreign Muslims from entering the country — a religious test that was criticized across party lines as un-American. “Anyone who can not name our enemy is not fit to lead this country”.
Democrat Hillary Clinton has spent the summer hammering Trump as unfit to serve as commander in chief. “And while I’m at it, we should give a hand to our great police officers and law enforcement officials”, he said. Echoing growing alarm about Trump’s candidacy among many leading Republicans, the newspaper said Trump had failed to establish a competent campaign operation.
Trump has since said he was being sarcastic in accusing Obama of founding IS.
Labor Day, which falls on September 5 this year, marks the end of US summer vacations and traditionally launches the final phase of the long USA election season.
Mr Trump’s speech comes during a hard time for his presidential campaign.
Trump seeks to combine this bogus antiwar stance with ferocious militarism in relation to ISIS, which was the sole focus of his Youngstown speech.
Manafort denied any impropriety in a statement on Monday.
Artem Sytnik, the head of Ukraine’s anti-corruption bureau, confirmed in a briefing with reporters that Manafort’s name appeared on a ledger and that more than $12 million had been allocated as an expenditure, referencing Manafort. He knew better than all the professional politicians about everything – and said so at the time!
If this was the Cold War, when people were being vetted for ties to Communists, would Trump pass with his admiration for former KGB colonel Vladimir Putin? That’s a 23-percentage-point lead for Clinton, and it contrasts sharply with her meager five point lead over Trump in mid- July, 50 percent to 45 percent. Polls also show Trump trailing in states such as Pennsylvania that are likely to be pivotal in the election.
Reversing his previous skepticism regarding the continued usefulness of NATO, Trump praised the mutual defense treaty organization for enhancing its anti-terrorism capabilities and said he would be prepared to have the US “work very closely with NATO” to defeat Islamic terrorists.
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Obama, by contrast, went out of his way to snub Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Egyptian President Sisi, rather than draw closer together in the common fight against ISIS, Hamas and other radical Islamists.
