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08-18-2016, 01:47 PM
McInerney: 'She was secretary of state for 4 years, and she still doesn't know'
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton both say they are committed to the destruction of ISIS and use similar language to detail their plans, but retired U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Tom McInerney says there is a world of difference in what they mean.
“My administration will aggressively pursue joint and coalition military operations to crush and destroy ISIS, international cooperation to cut off their funding, expanded intelligence sharing, and cyber warfare to disrupt and disable their propaganda and recruiting. We cannot allow the Internet to be used as a recruiting tool, and for other purposes, by our enemy – we must shut down their access to this form of communication, and we must do so immediately,” said Trump earlier this week during a major national security address in Ohio.
Those words don’t sound much different than Hillary Clinton’s prescription for ISIS that she offered in her speech accepting the Democratic Party presidential nomination.
“We will strike their sanctuaries from the air and support local forces taking them out on the ground. We will surge our intelligence so we detect and prevent attacks before they happen. We will disrupt their efforts online to reach and radicalize young people in our country,” said Clinton in that speech.
McInerney told WND and Radio America the similar words do not signify a similar agenda.
“Unfortunately, Mrs. Clinton means the same thing that President Obama has done,” he said. “We’re now at two years that ISIS has had a caliphate in Iraq and Syria.”
The general said one obvious difference in thwarting ISIS can be found in the candidates’ approach to the refugee crisis afflicting Europe. Clinton wants to exponentially increase the rate the U.S. accepts refugees while Trump this week called for “extreme vetting” to ensure anyone entering this country pledges allegiance to the U.S. Constitution.
But, he said, the biggest difference can be seen in how the two candidates approach the roots of radical Islam.
“We must use ideological warfare as well,” Trump said on Monday. “Just as we won the Cold War, in part, by exposing the evils of communism and the virtues of free markets, so too must we take on the ideology of radical Islam.”
By contrast, Clinton said in November 2015 in a speech to the Council on Foreign Relations: “Islam is not our adversary. Muslims are peaceful and tolerant people and have nothing to do whatsoever with terrorism.”
McInerney said the divide couldn’t be more stark on this point.
“You’ve got to identify it. It is radical Islam. It is not violent extremism,” he said. “I know not the ideology of violent extremism, but I do know the ideology of radical Islam: That is the Quran, the Hadith, the sayings of the prophet, and Shariah law. Those three things are the pillars that drive their rules of engagement and their brutal, autocratic way of governing people.”
http://www.wnd.com/2016/08/top-general-exposes-pathetic-flaw-in-hillarys-isis-plan/
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton both say they are committed to the destruction of ISIS and use similar language to detail their plans, but retired U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Tom McInerney says there is a world of difference in what they mean.
“My administration will aggressively pursue joint and coalition military operations to crush and destroy ISIS, international cooperation to cut off their funding, expanded intelligence sharing, and cyber warfare to disrupt and disable their propaganda and recruiting. We cannot allow the Internet to be used as a recruiting tool, and for other purposes, by our enemy – we must shut down their access to this form of communication, and we must do so immediately,” said Trump earlier this week during a major national security address in Ohio.
Those words don’t sound much different than Hillary Clinton’s prescription for ISIS that she offered in her speech accepting the Democratic Party presidential nomination.
“We will strike their sanctuaries from the air and support local forces taking them out on the ground. We will surge our intelligence so we detect and prevent attacks before they happen. We will disrupt their efforts online to reach and radicalize young people in our country,” said Clinton in that speech.
McInerney told WND and Radio America the similar words do not signify a similar agenda.
“Unfortunately, Mrs. Clinton means the same thing that President Obama has done,” he said. “We’re now at two years that ISIS has had a caliphate in Iraq and Syria.”
The general said one obvious difference in thwarting ISIS can be found in the candidates’ approach to the refugee crisis afflicting Europe. Clinton wants to exponentially increase the rate the U.S. accepts refugees while Trump this week called for “extreme vetting” to ensure anyone entering this country pledges allegiance to the U.S. Constitution.
But, he said, the biggest difference can be seen in how the two candidates approach the roots of radical Islam.
“We must use ideological warfare as well,” Trump said on Monday. “Just as we won the Cold War, in part, by exposing the evils of communism and the virtues of free markets, so too must we take on the ideology of radical Islam.”
By contrast, Clinton said in November 2015 in a speech to the Council on Foreign Relations: “Islam is not our adversary. Muslims are peaceful and tolerant people and have nothing to do whatsoever with terrorism.”
McInerney said the divide couldn’t be more stark on this point.
“You’ve got to identify it. It is radical Islam. It is not violent extremism,” he said. “I know not the ideology of violent extremism, but I do know the ideology of radical Islam: That is the Quran, the Hadith, the sayings of the prophet, and Shariah law. Those three things are the pillars that drive their rules of engagement and their brutal, autocratic way of governing people.”
http://www.wnd.com/2016/08/top-general-exposes-pathetic-flaw-in-hillarys-isis-plan/