He described the fight as an ideological one that is similar to the Cold War with Russian Federation.
Advertisement
Trump famously said past year that as president he would build a huge wall between the United States and Mexico to keep out illegal immigrants – and even temporarily bar all members of the Islamic faith from entering, until USA officials can “figure out what’s going on”.
Possibly his biggest round of applause from an invited audience at Youngstown State University in OH came when he declared that US “nation building” in the Mideast and elsewhere would come to an end in a Trump administration. He added he would call for an worldwide conference with USA allies to work towards the end of the Islamic State (Isis).
To Trump, that means ensuring anyone entering the country shares American values. “We cannot always choose our friends but we can never fail to recognise our enemies”, he asserted.
He also said he would work closely with NATO allies to defeat Islamic State militants if he won the election in November, reversing an earlier threat that the United States might not meet its NATO treaty obligations with allies. “We will partner with King Abdullah of Jordan, and President Sisi of Egypt, and all others who recognize this ideology of death that must be extinguished”.
“Our current strategy of nation-building and regime change have been a total disaster – it’s time to chart a new course”, he said. He would hold joint military operations with any country fighting ISIS.
Clinton has also rolled out a counter-terrorism plan, arguing that allies would be more willing to work with her administration than one led by Trump.
Trump started his speech by claiming the U.S.is facing an unprecedented threat from radical Islamic terrorism.
With Donald Trump calling for “extreme vetting” and pitching a new “ideological test” for immigrants, the big-mouthed billionaire is being called out to take the USA naturalization test first. “I call it extreme, extreme vetting”, he continued. I call it extreme, extreme vetting. “Our country has enough problems”, he said. “To put these new procedures in place, we will have to temporarily suspend immigration from some of the most-dangerous and volatile regions of the world that have a history of exporting terrorism”.
This test would determine whether the individual shares our values like religious tolerance, gender equality, and gay rights.
In a foreign policy speech Monday, Trump says people who “do not believe in our Constitution, or who support bigotry and hatred” will be barred from entering the country.
Trump defined it Monday this way: “In addition to screening out all members or sympathizers of terrorist groups, we must also screen out any who have hostile attitudes toward our country or its principles or who believe that Sharia law should supplant American law. It’s a cynical ploy to escape scrutiny of his outrageous proposal to ban an entire religion from our country and no one should fall for it”, he said.
Donald Trump also stated that he would shut down ISIS’s access to the internet.
“We can not allow the internet to be used as a recruiting tool, and for other purposes, by our enemy – we must shut down their access to this form of communication, and we must do so immediately”.
During the primary season, Trump promised “quickly and decisively bomb the hell out of ISIS” and in March, he suggested that he would be willing to support a massive ground force to take on the terror group.
Trump softened the tone of previous comments on a number of things, including his description of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation as “obsolete” and filled with members who don’t pay their fair share for USA “protection”.
The Republican nominee said that under his administration, the detention center at Guantanamo Bay would remain open, human intelligence would be highly valued and foreign combatants would be tried in military commissions.
Advertisement
Watch his full speech below.
