In a speech in OH on Monday, Donald Trump reminded us once again of his severe Islamophobia after calling for a more stringent USA immigration test to admit only “those who share our values and respect our people” in an attempt to combat ISIS. The policy would represent a significant shift in how the US manages entry into the country.
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In a speech the Republican presidential nominee will deliver on Monday in Ohio, Trump will argue that the country needs to work with anyone that shares that mission, regardless of other ideological and strategic disagreements.
The plan also called for a concerted effort overseas to destroy the Islamic State and other radical Islamic terror groups, which would include military, financial and cyber warfare.
Senate minority leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) issued the same challenge, blasting Trump’s xenophobic foreign policy speech on Monday morning.
And while the Republican presidential nominee argued against nation-building in a foreign policy speech Monday, he advocated for something even more grandiose: seizing Iraq’s oil wealth in the aftermath of the USA invasion in 2003 that toppled Saddam Hussein.
Trump also claimed his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton was not fit enough to be president, saying “she lacks the mental and physical stamina to take on ISIS and all of the many adversaries we face”.
Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton’s campaign isn’t skipping a beat when it comes to Trump’s connections to Russian Federation.
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and Vice President Joe Biden visit his childhood home in Scranton, Pa., Monday, Aug. 15, 2016. The message from Trump, however, was that Obama and Clinton have tiptoed around the threat because they are unwilling to use the phrase “radical Islamic terrorism” and are too afraid of offending those who would do harm to effectively target them. “The threat to their life has gone up a couple clicks”, he said.
“The level of specificity that would be helpful to ISIS is far, far greater than anything he is offering”, Friedman said, noting that even during the Cold War era, President Dwight Eisenhower offered detailed foreign policy plans to deal with communism.
Obama, Clinton and top US officials have warned against using that kind of language to describe the conflict, arguing that it plays into militants’ hands.
Trump called for a “new approach” to fighting terror, slamming the policies put in place by Obama and Clinton, who served as his first secretary of state.
Under Trump’s new immigration policy, the government would use questionnaires, social media, interviews with friends and family or other means to determine if applicants support American values like tolerance and pluralism.
Trump said as soon as he becomes President, he will ask the State Department and the Department of Homeland Security to identify a list of regions where adequate screening can not take place. But the GOP nominee put as much weight on Mr. Obama’s call to pull US troops out of Iraq before the country had fully stabilized. He did not specifically name countries, but forcefully said that people who have “hostile attitudes” toward the United States must be blocked from coming, as well as those “who believe that Sharia law should supplant American law”.
Mr Trump’s proposals were the latest version of a policy that began with his unprecedented call to temporarily bar foreign Muslims from entering the country – a religious test that was criticised across party lines as un-American.
Trump said, “There are many such regions” and he vows to “stop processing visas from those areas until such time as it is deemed safe to resume based on new circumstances or new procedures”.
That proposal raised numerous questions that the campaign never clarified, including whether it would apply to citizens of countries like France, Israel, or Ireland, which have suffered recent and past attacks. Trump had promised to release his list of “terror countries” soon. “Very good. Very, very good”, Trump said.
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Trump said he would work closely with North Atlantic Treaty Organisation allies to defeat IS militants if he wins the White House, reversing his earlier threat that the United States might not meet its North Atlantic Treaty Organisation obligations. “People were so upset when I used the word Muslim”.
