Thursday, November 19, 2015

First Read: Hawkish Hillary Clinton to Talk ISIS Strategy

 
First Read is a morning briefing from Meet the Press and the NBC Political Unit on the day's most important political stories and why they matter.
 
Hillary the Hawk

In a speech she'll deliver this morning in New York, Hillary Clinton will describe her strategy to combat ISIS. And you can expect a hawkish-sounding address, especially compared with President Obama's rhetoric. A Clinton campaign aide previews the speech, saying the Democratic candidate will call for 1) defeating ISIS in Syria, Iraq and across the region; 2) disrupting ISIS's network; and 3) beefing up defense/security capabilities in American and across the world. Now while those three areas aren't necessarily different than what Obama has said in the past, we can pretty much guarantee that she'll say it with sharper-edged rhetoric. After all, foreign affairs and national security is the one area where she can move to President Obama's right. The question we have is if Bernie Sanders has the credibility to exploit it. Remember, while Barack Obama was to Hillary Clinton's left on Iraq in 2007-2008, he actually was tougher than she was when it came to Afghanistan and Pakistan. 

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Source: NBC News

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