Trump vows ‘Cold War’ terror fight, immigrant controls
NEW YORK: Donald Trump on Monday laid out a US blueprint for defeating global terrorism in partnership with Nato and Middle East allies, demanding extreme restrictions on immigration and likening the fight to the Cold War.
The Republican nominee, who is tanking in the polls following weeks of self-inflicted disasters, made his pitch to be a security strongman as the Democratic vice president accused him of imperilling the lives of Americans.
“We will defeat radical Islamic terrorism just as we have defeated every threat we faced at every age,” said Trump in Ohio, a battleground stateconsideredessentialtowinning the US presidential election.
His foreign policy address marked
We will defeat radical Islamic terrorism just as we have defeated every threat we faced at every age.
the latest attempt by the Trump campaign to get their maverick candidate back on message as his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton surges ahead in the polls.
Watering down his highly contested assertion that Barack Obama and Clinton created the so- called Islamic State extremist group, Trump said IS was ‘ the direct result of policy decisions’ made by the president and former secretary of state, referencing chaos in Iraq and Libya.
He claimed the extremist group, which is the target of USled air strikes and Special Forces operations in Iraq and Syria, was ‘ fully operational’ in 18 countries and had ‘aspiring branches in six more’.
The real- estate tycoon and former reality TV star promised to end the US policy of ‘ nation building’ and called for a ‘ new approach’ in partnership with foreign allies to ‘ halt the spread of radical Islam’.
Trump vowed to work ‘ very closely’ with Nato, sidestepping previous criticism of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation after saying that a Trump presidency would not automatically leap to members’ defence. — AFP
Donald Trump, Republican presidential candidate