Donald Trump on Monday sought to turn the tables on Democratic critics who are depicting him as unfit for office. “No candidate of a major party in American history had so little knowledge, or were less prepared to deal with our national security”, he warned in his city native of Scranton, Pennsylvania, one of the key states in the November presidential. He characterized the fight as an ideological struggle on par with that of the Cold War that demands a sweeping rethink of U.S. policies at home and overseas. And he said he would continue President Obama’s practice of killing the enemy with drone strikes. “And all of the many adversaries that we face”.
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Trump said, “There are many such regions” and 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”.
Mr Trump also pledged to end “our current strategy of nation-building and regime change” – a criticism that extends to policies of both parties.
“Our new approach, he said, “must be to halt the spread of radical Islam”. All our actions should be oriented around this, and any country that shares this goal will be our ally”. Any country that wants to work with the U.S.to defeat “radical Islamic terrorism” will be a USA ally, he is expected to say. “The rise of ISIS (the Islamic State) is the direct result of policy decisions made by President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton”, said Trump, who controversially labelled Obama and Clinton as “the founders of ISIS” last week. Possible entrants to the US would have to answer questions about whether they believed in a “tolerant” way of life and agreed with US values about the treatment of women, the rule of law, and the primacy of the US Constitution.
The Clinton campaign criticised Trump’s suggestion, branding it “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”.
And it all came down to adequate vetting of immigrants and refugees.
He vowed to be quick and decisive when attacking ISIS, and is calling for the temporary suspension of immigration from risky and volatile regions in the world where terrorism is frequent.
Donald Trump said he would introduce a new ideological test for admission to the United States called “extreme vetting” in which would-be immigrants would be asked what they believe on issues like religious freedom, gender equality and gay rights.
The US would also stop issuing visas in any case where it can not perform adequate screenings, the campaign said. Instead, Trump repeated the untruths that he opposed both the Iraq War and intervention in Libya from the beginning, reversed his position on US involvement with North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and called for – rather than his previously proposed “complete shutdown” of Muslims entering the country – new screening procedures for immigrants seeking entry to the United States.
“As president, I will call for an worldwide conference focused on this goal”, he said.
Donald Trump has called for “extreme vetting” of immigrants and pledged to make dramatic changes to U.S. immigration policy if he wins the presidential race in November. We don’t need more and these are problems like we’ve never had before. The US and many of its other allies have long insisted that Assad, accused among other things of gassing his own citizens, needs to go.
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.
But, amid much other nonsense and bluster, Trump struck on a kernel of truth: Against the better wisdom of others, Obama’s withdrawal enhanced the Islamic State’s opportunity to run rampant across northwestern Iraq and into Syria, and the tide is only now slowly turning against the militants.
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Although his campaign claimed Trump would use his speech to give more details about his plan to fight IS (Daesh), he merely repeated previous proposals.
