Republicans demand US lead a new war to ‘eradicate Isis' after Paris attacks

[umbertino]

Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio and Lindsey Graham argue for more aggressive military intervention day after foreign policy dominates Democratic presidential debate

 

 

Dan Roberts in Des Moines, Iowa

 

Sunday 15 November 2015 17.11 GMT

 

 

Foreign policy hawks seized on the Paris terrorist attacks to argue for more aggressive military intervention in the Middle East, as national security issues assumed centre stage in the US presidential race.

 

Following a Democratic television debate on Saturday that was dominated by calls for a tougher response to Islamic State radicals, leading Republicans joined the fray on Sunday in a series of political interviews that also saw linked attacks on immigration and calls for more intelligence surveillance.

 

“This is clearly an act of war and an attack on one of our Nato allies, and we should invoke Article 5 of the Nato agreement, and bring everyone together to put together a coalition to confront this challenge,” said Senator Marco Rubio, on ABC.

 

He was joined by his Florida rival Jeb Bush, who also demanded the US lead a new war to “eradicate Isis from the face of the earth” and warned that screening of Muslim refugees from Syria was unlikely to be fully effective in preventing terrorist infiltration of the US.

 

“Ultimately the best way to deal with the refugee crisis is to create safe zones inside Syria so that people don’t risk their lives and you have don’t have what will be a national security challenge both for our country and Europe,” Bush said on CNN.

 

“We should focus our efforts as it relates to refugees on the Christians that are being slaughtered,” he added, suggesting that specific efforts should take place to determine individuals’ religion before refugees were admitted into the US.

 

Republicans are increasingly less reticent than Democrats to describe the battle against Isis in religious terms. The South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham went furthest of all the presidential candidates on Sunday by demanding an immediate ground invasion of Syria.

 

“The best thing the United States can do to protect our homeland is to go on offence, form a regional army – with the French involved if they would like to be – and go in on the ground and destroy their caliphate,” Graham said.

 

“We are going to fight [isis] in their backyard or we are going to fight them in our backyard,” he added, arguing thousands of US troops would be needed in Syria and Iraq to “pull the caliphate up by the roots, take back land held by Isil and hold it until Syria repairs itself”.

 

Graham has long been an outlier even among hawkish Republicans, but his tone is increasingly matched by politicians in both parties as the White House struggles to articulate its compromise strategy of airstrikes and limited ground support from US special forces.

 

Administration officials were on the defensive on Sunday after a pre-recorded interview with Barack Obama in which the president boasted of “containing” Isis was rapidly overtaken by events in France.

 

“I don’t think they’re gaining strength,” said Obama in remarks to ABC that were recorded before the Paris attacks but after the Beirut and Russian aircraft bombings. “From the start our goal has been first to contain and we have contained them.”

 

On Sunday, deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes insisted this was a “very specific point that the president was making”, rather than a broader claim of victory.

 

“There is no question that this is a very significant threat that is going to require a long-term campaign and there are going to be setbacks,” said Rhodes.

 

“We have to very methodically degrade this threat,” he added, pointing to fresh US attacks on a leading Isis figure in Libya.

 

Nonetheless, the slip has seen even Democrats distance themselves from Obama’s strategy for tackling Isis.

 

“It cannot be contained, it must be defeated,” said Hillar-y Clinton at the outset of Saturday’s second presidential debate.

 

“Our prayers are with the people of France tonight but that is not enough,” she added. “We need to have a resolve that will bring the world together to root out the kind of radical jihadist ideology that motivates organizations like Isis, the barbaric, ruthless, violence jihadist, terrorist group.”

 

 

Clinton’s rival Bernie Sanders briefly warned that the track record of US intervention in the Middle East had not helped. But even Democrats running to the former secretary of state’s left have criticised her for not being clear enough that the US has to lead action against Isis.

 

“I would disagree with Secretary Clinton, respectfully, on this score,” said the former Maryland governor Martin O’Malley in the debate. “This actually is America’s fight.”

 

Bush also echoed calls made by the US intelligence community in the last 24 hours for the Paris attacks to lead to a rethink of recent reforms designed to protect against overly intrusive surveillance.

 

Meanwhile, Obama met Russian president Vladimir Putin on the fringes of the G20 summit in Turkey, to discuss diplomatic progress toward ending the civil war in Syria and call for a ceasefire.

 

 

Jeb Bush suggested that specific efforts should take place to determine individuals’ religion before refugees were admitted into the US.

Photograph: Brian Snyder/Reuters

 

 

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/nov/15/paris-attacks-republican-response-isis-military-intervention

 

[chess]

Lindsey is right. Perhaps just a "small" Atomic Bomb over Syria. It worked for that great Democrat, Harry Truman, over Japan!

[SgtFuryUSCZ]

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[Texstorm]

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Ah, yes... Our PLAN B for The M.E. ... The Glass Pancake Solution.....

Now that may be a solution to Al Gores Global Warming, If we make a big enough mirror through turning sand into glass that should be just enough to reflect all of that bad sun away.

 

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Ah, yes... Our PLAN B for The M.E. ... The Glass Pancake Solution.....

Think BIG ! Make more glass !

[yota691]

Carter: America is looking for opportunities to attack "Daash"

08:17: 11/17/2015

 

Khandan - US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter said the United States continues to look for opportunities to attack the organization "Daash" terrorist.Carter said in his first comments after the Paris attacks "We are looking for opportunities to attack them and we will continue to do so until defeat them." Said Carter in a forum hosted by The Wall Street Journal that this includes attacking the oil infrastructure and to identify the active forces on the ground and help them.

[nstoolman1]

Ok. So we have the plans for the giant mirror.(I am thinking big Texstorm.)

 

Now we need the plans for the giant steam turbine so we can have unlimited power from

 

the sun.  

 

It is written, let it be so.  

[new york kevin]

Carter: America is looking for opportunities to attack "Daash"

 

Khandan - US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter said the United States continues to look for opportunities to attack the organization "Daash" terrorist.Carter said in his first comments after the Paris attacks "We are looking for opportunities to attack them and we will continue to do so until defeat them." Said Carter in a forum hosted by The Wall Street Journal that this includes attacking the oil infrastructure and to identify the active forces on the ground and help them.

Looking for opportunities to attack ISIS? Really! What sand pile has your head been stuck in? Russia moves into Syria and hits ISIS within a week, while we gently dust bomb a few choice targets. You need to fly 200-400 bombing sortes a day after the Russians and the U.S. Coalition Forces encircle ISIS. Then send in Kurdish Ground Forces heavily armed to mop up the people who they know to be ISIS and ISIS sympathisers. Cut off their re-supply routes, land, sea, and air. Bomb the bejeezez out of their communication centers. Particularly the huge one near the southern Syrian border. Let the Kurds just go in and mow the road!

You make it sound like it you need help finding stuff. Tune into DV get some Intel from there.

[dog53]

Berry's plans  are obvious.

His plan is to do nothing

His plan is to get as much golf in as he can

His plan is to dine on the finest food the taxpayers can supply

His plan is to rub elbows with the Hollywood elite.

His plan is to continue close relations with the Muslim Brotherhood

His plan is to continue to divide the nation pitting Black against white and white and black against Hispanic

His plans are to kneel and face mecca and pray to his god

 

Berry's plans are obvious

[Shabibilicious]

Berry's plans  are obvious.

His plan is to do nothing

His plan is to get as much golf in as he can

His plan is to dine on the finest food the taxpayers can supply

His plan is to rub elbows with the Hollywood elite.

His plan is to continue close relations with the Muslim Brotherhood

His plan is to continue to divide the nation pitting Black against white and white and black against Hispanic

His plans are to kneel and face mecca and pray to his god

 

Berry's plans are obvious

 

Thanks for pointing out the.....obvious.        

 

GO RV, then BV

[pattyangel]

No need for a new war, this war has been ongoing for quiet some time.  We just need someone to lead with bigger balls, not with pea brain size. 

This administrations is nothing but words, hot air, they just express themselves with symbolism, they have ideas and emotions but ignoring reality with actions.  This method is what cools the situation down...if the words can hold you over till it dies down, then so be it.  NO ACTION is required. 

 

Great for France, I applaud their actions.  Rid the evil. 

 

There is a plan in progress, this administration is being careless for moving forward in allowing so many refugees into the US.  The US can not house these refugees, not enough charitable donations going to the agency, there are not enough people employed to support this hideous plan.  Oh wait... print money    

Let the people vote on the refugees, we the people will let you know where we stand.  

[chess]

.....but, but , but have we not "contained" them??......whata POS he is!!

[boosterbglee]

We could fly "Crop Dusters" over Raqqa and put them to sleep! 

[waterman13]

Here's an interesting article I just came across, maybe this is why the US and the Kurds are not "effective" in removing ISIS.

http://www.activistpost.com/2015/11/u-s-turkey-joint-operation-designed-to-save-isis-not-destroy-it.html

 

or

http://www.blacklistednews.com/50_US_Spies_%E2%80%98Revolt%E2%80%99_Exposing_How_Their_Reports_are_Cooked_to_Manipulate_the_Public_about_ISIS/47391/0/38/38/Y/M.html

Edited November 18, 2015 by waterman13

[bigwave]

[chess]

ONLY 20%!!!!!........twenty percent of hundreds of millions is a phaque of a lot!!!!!!

 

Germans:  BUT, those bastards were IN CONTROL!!!!!

[DinarMillionaire]

The pResident "Bagdad Barrack" is importing his "army, just as big, just as well funded as the American military". IMPEACH Imam Obamalama before it's too late...oh wait...it may already be too late.

Be well prepared and vigilant. Carry at all times and don't hesitate when the time comes. Take cover behind a Liberal if possible, you'll know if a Liberal is around...they'll be the one trying to sweet talk a terrorist to death or they'll be peeing on themselves.

[SnowGlobe7]

...and asking you to defend them with your gun!!!!!!!