In the wake of a series of fatal terrorist attacks in Brussels, Belgium, on Tuesday, Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump said he would go beyond waterboarding when interrogating suspected terrorist leaders and repeated that the United States should “close up our borders until we figure out what’s going on”. Ted Cruz lashed out at Republican presidential rival Donald Trump for questioning the United States’ role in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the Cold War-era defense pact.
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USA presidential candidates on Tuesday morning reacted to the deadly attacks that rocked the city of Brussels, killing or wounding dozens at an airport and a train station.
“Even Barack Obama hasn’t gone from withdrawing from North Atlantic Treaty Organisation the way that Donald Trump has”, Cruz added.
We offer our deepest condolences to the families who lost loved ones in this barbaric attack and to the people of Brussels who were the target of another cowardly attempt to terrorize innocent civilians.
“We need surveillance. You need to deal with the mosques, whether you like it or not”. Brussels is an awesome example, it was a lovely city, one of the most attractive cities in the world. He said the attacks are a reminder that the global community must work together to destroy the Islamic State group, which claimed responsibility for the blasts.
The Vermont senator says “this type of barbarism can not be allowed to continue”.
The terror attacks in Belgium naturally dominated talk on the campaign trail today.
“We are lax and we are foolish”, said Trump, the front-runner in the race for the Republican nomination in the November election.
Cruz also criticized Trump, who on Monday said the USA ought to curtail its financial commitments to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation military alliance.
Cruz declared in his final tweet that such an approach “ends on January 20, 2017, when I am sworn in as president”.
“We must also redouble our efforts with our allies to identify, root out and destroy the perpetrators of such acts of evil”, he added.
Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the U.S. House Intelligence Committee, said the Brussels attacks that killed at least 26 people at the airport and a rush-hour metro train, “bear all the hallmarks of an ISIS-inspired, or ISIS-coordinated attack”, using an acronym for Islamic State.
“What we feared has happened, we were hit by blind attacks”, Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel said at a news conference. “We’ve got to be absolutely strong and smart and steady in how we respond”, she says.
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The AP delegate count has Trump with 681, Cruz with 425 and Ohio Gov. John Kasich with 143. Idaho’s Democratic caucus and American Samoa’s Republican nominating convention are also being held Tuesday.
