“But we still can’t close our eyes to the fact that there is a distorted and risky stream of extremism within the Muslim world that continues to spread”, Clinton stated.
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The terror attacks in Paris showed Europe is “way behind” in intelligence sharing and gathering, Clinton said, noting the USA had made significant advances to streamline intelligence after the September 11 terror attacks. Before the US invasion of Iraq and the toppling of Saddam Hussein, Iraq was a relatively safe place for the Sunni minority of that country. But given her need to win the Democratic nomination, she ruled out the forces needed to implement an effective anti-ISIS strategy today. She, however, avoided criticising the president directly and said she only seeks a more intensified action against the terrorist organisation. Clinton and Bernie Sanders are outlining the steps on Thursday they would take to combat the Islamic State group, each making major speeches less than a week after the deadly attacks in Paris. “Turning away orphans, applying a religious test, discriminating against Muslims, slamming the door on every Syrian refugee, that is just not who we are”.
Clinton also urged Congress to “swiftly” pass an updated authorization to use military force against the militants.
As for Russian Federation, it has “an important role to play”.
She also said the U.S. military should have a “broader target set” to bomb, without specifying where else the American bombers should strike.
Democratic US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at the Council on Foreign Relations in NY November 19, 2015. Though she still faces a primary challenge from Sen. “But the threat from ISIS can not wait”, said Clinton.
“We have to fit a lot of pieces together, bring along a lot of partners”, she said at one point. She pushed for the United States to join a coalition to oust Libya’s strongman Moammar Gadhafi. And Clinton pointed Saturday to her calls to train and equip moderate rebels in Syria “very early on”.
She underscored that position again Thursday. “That starts with raising the minimum wage, because nobody who works full time should be living in poverty.”, said Hillary Clinton, according to The Tennessean.
“This is their fight and they need to act like it. So far, however, Turkey has been more focused on the Kurds than on countering ISIS. Islam is not our adversary”, Clinton argued. I mean, because I think it’s – I think right now, we have one overriding goal.
Clinton has long advocated for a more aggressive approach in Syria, now four and a half years embroiled in civil war. “I was a senator from NY on 9/11”. But that might not be the only option, especially if Assad is left in power.
“We have a president who refused to use the term the other day and of course, [Clinton] is concerned that if she angers the president she’s going to end up being indicted”, the Republican presidential hopeful told supporters in Spartanburg, S.C., Friday.
For instance, while Clinton called for a USA effort to support Arab armies on the ground to rout ISIS, she did not explain exactly how that would happen.
Hillary Rodham Clinton is spending the coming weeks promoting a series of tax benefits that she says will help boost the take-home pay for middle class families. Her spokesman, Nick Merrill, said that the candidate “sees merit” in deploying the 50 special operations forces.
To be sure, the two candidates don’t agree on everything-Rubio wants the U.S.to stop taking in Syrian refugees because it is “currently impossible to verify their identities or intentions”, he wrote Thursday in an op-ed for Politico Magazine, a view shared by his Republican base of support.
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Voters who think the United States is at war with radical Islamic terrorism are evenly divided over the question of whether ISIS represents true Islamic beliefs.
