Is former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton scared of the Islamic State?
Clinton promised that, under her presidency, she would resist sending U.S. forces to fight Islamic militants no matter what… even if ISIS directly attacks American soil.
“I think [doing so] would be a mistake,” she said during a question-and-answer session with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria in New York, when she was asked if the pressure to send in U.S. ground troops to Syria would be “unstoppable” if they attacked in the U.S.
Instead, Clinton said she backs the president’s efforts to combat Islamic militants.
Her remarks drew a striking contrast with many of her Republican opponents who have advocated for a large-scale military mobilization, new measures to bar Syrian refugees from entering the country and a congressional declaration of war.
Former Florida governor Jeb Bush on Wednesday called for the US to “increase our presence on the ground,” in a speech in South Carolina. Bush offered no specifics, but said the number of Americans sent to the region should be “in line with what our military generals recommend, not politicians.”
In Congress, House Republicans are pushing legislation toward approval that would erect fresh hurdles for Syrian and Iraqi refugees trying to enter the country. President Barack Obama has promised to veto the bill.
Republicans have sought to link Clinton to the unpopular foreign policy of Obama, casting her as continuing his strategy in the region. His critics have said he underestimated the threat posed by Islamic State militants, noting he once referred to the group as the “JV squad.”
“From Libya to Russia to China, Hillary Rodham Clinton has been the chief architect of the Obama administration’s failed policy of coddling adversaries, disrespecting allies and leading from behind,” said Steven Law, head of American Crossroads, a Republican political group, in a statement.
The Associated Press contributed to this article
US to be a leader again be respected and largest country:1- US must have full control of their borders and the entry and registration of legal persons, Muslim religions and ideologies and other foreign communists within the territory, but no longer country,2- US must force Russia and China not to continue providing weapons to Muslims as terrorists used in attack on France3- US has to deport all undocumented immigrants to legal expeditiously re-enter if you show good behavior and support work for their sustenance.4- America will never have to allow refugees massive set an example for Mexican, Cuban, Haitian and Caribbean.5- USA has to build the separation wall on the edges of their borders, paid by Mexico and Canada.6- The US has never should allow entry of refugees in Syria and massively case Mexico, Chinese, Cubans, Venezuelans, Indian, Chinese and Other7- America will never have to negotiate with countries such as extorting letting himself has illegal immigrants seeking to enter through Mexico as Cuban and Syrian stranded in Honduras and Central American countries.8- US has to ban Koran and capture terrorists Muslim religious leaders.9. USA has never negotiate with deliberants communist countries like Cuba contrary, Russia, Venezuela and theocratic Palestine, Iran, Syria and the Vatican, United Kingdom and European Union10- US never has to negotiate trade agreements with countries grouped in block as Mexico-Canada, APEC and European Union.US 11- must never allow a Democratic and Republican bipartisan plague ACTING flagrantly violating the constitution to serve interests contrary to the people and 50 sovereign states of the union violated by five justices who are unpunished by willful omission of the constitutional political control by having off the impeachment process.12- US has to be forced to speak and communicate in the official language13. America will never have to allow Russia and China joining Russia and violates the sovereignty of justice by withholding illegally USA fugitive traitor Edward Snowed steals information and illegally retain Julian Assange to obstruct justice in Sweden ..14- US has never allow Muslims and communists and anti countries that is in anarchy and chaos have the capacity to develop weapons and have15- ever US president has to have a Muslim person not born and bred and trained with the republican values of mainland treason case Obama …16 – US never have to give permission to fraud companies registered in USA close factories and move factories to Mexico and Canada and other countries and then enter duty-free production.17- US never has to receive national congress monks as religious leaders how monks communists Vatican and fundamentalist monk Tibet monk in flagrant violation of the constitution by unconstitutional US two-party (bipartisan plague) in the same way the US has never received the National Congress leaders communist states and theocratic state that violate US law.18- US must support its veterans and all citizens to have welfare.19- US has to necessarily defend the fundamental rights of natural and legal persons and republican values of its founding. 20 – US everything that adds to maintain and sustain the order and world peace and protect and preserve life, ambient means and freedom
I agree with every thing you say Mariano Loo . and I only wish most Americans did too. Are you a naturalized citizen or seeking citizenship? If so, where are you from, you seem to have more concern for the welfare and safety of our United States than most people who are born here and that is both refreshing and sad in a way. I guess most Americans won’t appreciate what we have until we don’t have it anymore!