Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said in an interview aired Sunday that she doesn’t think the United States is winning the fight against the Islamic State.
Clinton spoke on the country’s efforts against the Islamic State during an appearance on ABC’s “This Week.”
“We’re not winning, but it’s too soon to say that we are doing everything we need to do,” Clinton said, before she launched into her plan to beat the group.
“And I’ve outlined very clearly. We have to fight them in the air, we have to fight them on the ground, and we have to fight them on the Internet, and we have to do everything we can with our friends and partners to protect ourselves,” Clinton continued.
Its to be expected that she’s saying what she thinks we want to hear. But I sure don’t want to hear that. I don’t want her or any of our dear leaders to draw us further down the rabbit hole. I’ve been resigned to voting for her but does she really have to make me feel nauseous for doing so?
I thought it was a very good appearance for Mrs. C…
That’s all I needed to hear. I’ll vote for her if I have to in November, but from now on, I’m a Bernie supporter.
She needs a reality check from us – not complacency nor sycophancy. I want to hear what Obama has to say tonight.
I certainly don’t know the best ways to counter Daesh over time. But I have a measure of confidence in Clinton as a serious person who’d be vastly better than any current active Republican. That’s really all I need to know. She has an offputting habit of fairly obviously triangulating on things like this. Obama has always been suaver about that. But if any American politician even hinted at the truth—that Western societies will have to face the threat of terrorism for a long time to come, and they have to accept that it can’t all be prevented—that politician would have to find a new line of work.