On Thursday, Clinton called for a no-fly zone enforced by coalition forces, expanded air strikes, and increased deployment of special operations troops.
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Sanders said that he started his campaign with much lower name-recognition than front-runner Clinton and is still working to introduce himself to voters.
“To be successful, airstrikes will have to be combined with ground forces actually taking back more territory from ISIS”, the former state secretary said. Referring to her refusal to identify the broader global threat as a war on Islamic extremism, Sammon added that Clinton “refuses to clearly define the threat we face and she is not breaking with Obama’s failed Syria policy in any meaningful way, while Marco’s offering a concrete alternative to defeating ISIS”. “We can help them, and we should, but we cannot substitute for them”.
In the aftermath of the Paris attacks, which authorities say were planned by Islamic State, the question of how to combat the group has become central to the presidential campaign.
“That is just not the smart move to make here”, she said.
The US senator from Vermont said the idea has roots in the legacies of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
“That was one of the real contributions, despite all the other problems, that George W. Bush made after 9/11 when he basically said after going to a mosque in Washington, we are not at war with Islam or Muslims”, Clinton said. “I think he’s making really strong points about the direction we should go”.
Clinton had sharp words for U.S. ally Turkey, accusing the government in Ankara of being more focused on attacking the Kurds than participating in the fight against the self-proclaimed Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL).
“We shouldn’t take them”, said Ned Tower, a Rubio supporter from Hayden, Idaho. “So what is this false attack really all about: either Secretary Hillary Clinton is repudiating years of advocating for universal health care or she’s playing politics with the health of America’s families”.
Although Clinton claimed that Muslims are not America’s enemy, she still admitted the fact that most extremist violence throughout the world today is perpetrated by radicalized Muslims.
Clinton’s proposed tax credit reflect a broadening rift with the other candidates in the Democratic field. Republicans have complained that USA arms shipments must transit through the central Iraqi government, causing delays in getting crucial hardware into the hands of troops with the best odds of success against ISIS.
During a later question-and-answer session, Clinton was asked if the pressure to send in US ground troops to Syria would be “unstoppable” if another terrorist attack occurred in the U.S.
“I think what the president has consistently said, which I agree with, is that we will support those who take the fight to ISIS”, she said.
Bill Clinton lost, and when he ran again two years later, Hillary Clinton said she would stop work and campaign full-time as Mrs Bill Clinton, according to Carl Bernstein, author of A Woman in Charge.
Clinton leads Sanders 55 percent to 30 percent among Democrats in the poll released Friday.
“Hillary Clinton can’t walk away from President Obama’s failing ISIS strategy because she helped craft it and even praised it”, Michael Short, the spokesman for the Republican National Committee, said in a statement on Wednesday. While it’s unlikely she could lose the nomination this time, she still needs to make sure she doesn’t alienate a Democratic base that she will need to come out in force on Election Day in November 2016. “Democrats and Republicans get along reasonably well, well as they ever have, I mean, we’re adversaries but in terms of the hatred and high emotions – that’s the battle within the Republican family they have not yet sorted out”.
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While parting ways with Obama to a few degree, she hewed closely to his decision to resettle as many as 10,000 Syrian refugees as part of the traditional US welcoming role.
