Jilani writes: "Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump reacted to the Orlando
shooting with evidence that they can agree on at least one thing: bombing
people. Both candidates called for an escalation of the U.S.-led bombing
campaign against ISIS in Syria and Iraq."
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. (photo: ABC News)
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton Call for Bombing ISIS After Orlando
Shooting That ISIS Didn't Direct
By Zaid Jilani, The Intercept
14 June 16
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump reacted to the Orlando shooting with
evidence that they can agree on at least one thing: bombing people. Both
candidates called for an escalation of the U.S.-led bombing campaign against
ISIS in Syria and Iraq.
"We have generals, that feel we can win this thing so fast and so strong,
but we have to be furious for a short period of time, and we're not doing
it!" Trump complained on Fox & Friends Monday morning.
"Are you saying hit Raqqa right now?" asked host Brian Kilmeade. "We're
going to have to start thinking about something," Trump replied.
Along the same lines, Clinton suggested during her post-Orlando speech
Monday afternoon that "We should keep the pressure on ramping up the air
campaign."
Both candidate's neglected to consider that no operational links between
ISIS and the alleged Orlando shooter, Omar Mateen, have been discovered.
While Mateen pledged allegiance to ISIS shortly before the attacks, he had
reportedly previously claimed connections to two groups that opposes ISIS,
the Lebanese militia group Hezbollah and al Qaeda
And neither explained how escalating bombardments in Iraq and Syria would do
anything to stop self-radicalized and/or unhinged attackers in the United
States.
If ISIS is not doing anything to help coordinate or assist these sorts of
mass killings, then destroying it - even if that were possible - wouldn't
make any difference.
And even if you blame ISIS for "inspiring" such attacks, the fact remains
that there are any number of extremist ideologies that a deranged would-be
killer could derive inspiration from - and you cannot bomb them all.
Clinton and Trump's gusto about doubling down on what the United States is
already doing - the U.S.-led coalition has conducted over 12,000 air strikes
against ISIS and other militant groups in Iraq and Syria - were echoed by
sitting lawmakers.
"We've got to be willing to take the battle to ISIS. Right now, they're
taking the battle to us, and yesterday it was in Orlando," Sen. Johnny
Isakson, R-Ga., told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, reviving the Bush-era
slogan: "fight them there, so we don't have to fight them here."
"The reality is, what we need to do is we need to take the fight to the
terrorists on their doorstep. Whether it's ISIS, Al Qaeda, Boko Haram, we
need to be there," Rep. Bill Hurd, R-Texas, told CNBC on Monday morning.
But the record shows that, if anything, U.S. military engagements in the
Middle East drive recruits to extremist organizations, rather than away.
Even Donald Rumsfeld's Pentagon worried about that.
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Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton Call for Bombing ISIS After Orlando
Shooting That ISIS Didn't Direct
By Zaid Jilani, The Intercept
14 June 16
illary Clinton and Donald Trump reacted to the Orlando shooting with
evidence that they can agree on at least one thing: bombing people. Both
candidates called for an escalation of the U.S.-led bombing campaign against
ISIS in Syria and Iraq.
"We have generals, that feel we can win this thing so fast and so strong,
but we have to be furious for a short period of time, and we're not doing
it!" Trump complained on Fox & Friends Monday morning.
"Are you saying hit Raqqa right now?" asked host Brian Kilmeade. "We're
going to have to start thinking about something," Trump replied.
Along the same lines, Clinton suggested during her post-Orlando speech
Monday afternoon that "We should keep the pressure on ramping up the air
campaign."
Both candidate's neglected to consider that no operational links between
ISIS and the alleged Orlando shooter, Omar Mateen, have been discovered.
While Mateen pledged allegiance to ISIS shortly before the attacks, he had
reportedly previously claimed connections to two groups that opposes ISIS,
the Lebanese militia group Hezbollah and al Qaeda
And neither explained how escalating bombardments in Iraq and Syria would do
anything to stop self-radicalized and/or unhinged attackers in the United
States.
If ISIS is not doing anything to help coordinate or assist these sorts of
mass killings, then destroying it - even if that were possible - wouldn't
make any difference.
And even if you blame ISIS for "inspiring" such attacks, the fact remains
that there are any number of extremist ideologies that a deranged would-be
killer could derive inspiration from - and you cannot bomb them all.
Clinton and Trump's gusto about doubling down on what the United States is
already doing - the U.S.-led coalition has conducted over 12,000 air strikes
against ISIS and other militant groups in Iraq and Syria - were echoed by
sitting lawmakers.
"We've got to be willing to take the battle to ISIS. Right now, they're
taking the battle to us, and yesterday it was in Orlando," Sen. Johnny
Isakson, R-Ga., told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, reviving the Bush-era
slogan: "fight them there, so we don't have to fight them here."
"The reality is, what we need to do is we need to take the fight to the
terrorists on their doorstep. Whether it's ISIS, Al Qaeda, Boko Haram, we
need to be there," Rep. Bill Hurd, R-Texas, told CNBC on Monday morning.
But the record shows that, if anything, U.S. military engagements in the
Middle East drive recruits to extremist organizations, rather than away.
Even Donald Rumsfeld's Pentagon worried about that.
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