Among the traits that Trump would screen for are those who have “hostile attitudes” toward the US, those who believe “Sharia law should supplant American law”, people who “don’t believe in our Constitution or who support bigotry and hatred”.
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In recent national polling, Clinton leads head-to-head match-ups against Trump, with the Democrat holding 47.7 percent support compared to 41 percent for the NY businessman, according to averages compiled by RealClear Politics.
Trump said USA troops should have been used to seize and guard it, and that could have helped stop the later success of the Islamic State group, which has depended on selling the oil to fund its war effort since its invasion in 2014.
According to the poll, Trump’s support among young voters was even lower than the estimated 32 per cent of support Richard Nixon received among 18years-to-29-year old voters in 1972 amid widespread protest against the Vietnam War.
National polls have shown slippage in support for Trump since the two presidential conventions, but the voter interest on issues that are potentially a problem for Clinton in defending the status quo suggests that Trump still could have a chance to reverse the slide in three upcoming presidential debates, including one scheduled for St. Louis on October 9.
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”. 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.
“What was the goal of this whole thing?”
“Drone strikes will remain part of our strategy, but we will also seek to capture high-value targets to gain needed information to dismantle their organizations”, Trump said. “All those Iraqi kids who have been blown to pieces”.
“The Obama-Clinton foreign policy unleashed ISIS [and] de-stabilized the Middle East”, he told the crowd at Youngstown State University, alleging that the former Secretary of State “lacks the mental and physical stamina to take on [the Islamic State]”.
More than 4,400 troops were killed in Iraq and the United States spent almost $61 billion to rebuild the country during the past war, according to the Iraq special inspector general.
Trump said he would bring that work to a “swift and decisive” end. That will include joint military operations, increased intelligence sharing and cyberwarfare. “We can never choose our friends, but we can never fail to recognize our enemies”. “We will partner with King Abdullah of Jordan and the president of Egypt, President Sisi, and all otherswho recognise this ideology of death that must be extinguished”, Trump said.
Trump was vague about what he would do differently to decimate the Islamic State in its strongholds in Iraq and Syria. However, Russia under Vladimir Putin is considered a top foe among many people in the Republican Party as well as worldwide security experts, and its operations in Syria are widely seen as an effort to prop up the Bashar Assad regime, which is directly at odds with USA policy that views him as an oppressive tyrant. I call it extreme vetting.
The Clinton campaign said the news was evidence of “more troubling connections between Donald Trump’s team and pro-Kremlin elements in Ukraine”.
“We will defeat radical Islamic terrorism, just as we have defeated every threat we have faced in every age before. They have a big, big problem in Russian Federation with ISIS”, he said. Those immigrants who declare their hostility for American law and their contempt for pluralism won’t be allowed in. “We have enough problems in our country, we don’t need another one”, Trump said.
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Trump’s unprecedented call in December 2015 “for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going on” is still listed on his campaign website, and he has yet to personally denounce the controversial proposal. “Trump and his drama has created Islamophobia”.
