Donald Trump vows US, allies will defeat ‘radical Islamic terrorism'

The Indian Express ^ | Tuesday, February 7, 2017 | AFP

[Jyotishi]

Caption - President Donald Trump speaks to troops while visiting U.S. Central Command and U.S. Special Operations Command at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Fla., Monday, Feb. 6, 2017. (AP Photo)

Macdill Air Force Base -- US President Donald Trump vowed today that America and its allies would defeat the "forces of death" and keep radical jihadists from gaining a foothold on US soil, but did not offer details about his strategy to defeat the Islamic State group. In his first visit to US Central Command – responsible for an area that includes the Middle East and Central Asia -Trump did not say whether he would scrap the anti-IS mission in Iraq and Syria undertaken by his predecessor Barack Obama.

"Today we deliver a message in one very unified voice to these forces of death and destruction – America and its allies will defeat you. We will defeat them," he told about 300 military personnel at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida.

"We will defeat radical Islamic terrorism. And we will not allow to it take root in our country," Trump added. "Freedom, security, and justice will prevail."

He accused Islamic State fighters of leading a "campaign of genocide, committing atrocities across the world."

"Radical Islamic terrorists are determined to strike our homeland as they did on 9/11, as they did from Boston to Orlando to San Bernardino, and all across Europe," added the president. He claimed that the "the very, very dishonest press doesn't want to report" on certain attacks, without offering any corroborating evidence to back up his allegation.

"They have their reasons," he said, without explaining further.

Trump had made fighting "radical Islamic terrorism" a central plank of his election campaign and the issue is emerging as the organizing principle of his foreign and domestic policies.

Centcom plays a key role in Operation Inherent Resolve -- the US-led mission to "degrade and defeat" the Islamic State group -- which has resulted in 17,861 strikes across northern Syria and Iraq since August 2016.

In late January, the president ordered generals to begin a 30-day review of the US strategy to defeat IS. Trump visited the base as he made his way back to Washington following a three-day break at his Mar-a-Lago estate in southern Florida.

The Republican president, now in his third week on the job, had lunch with enlisted soldiers before making brief remarks.

Apart from seizing territory and declaring a caliphate, the Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for attacks in Africa, Europe, the US, Southeast Asia and across the Middle East.

[UCANSEE2]

“Trump had made fighting “radical Islamic terrorism” a central plank of his election campaign “

So nice to have an elected official actually DO the things he promised to do.

[UCANSEE2]

P.S. And SO RARE.

[Da Coyote]

But, but, the liberal “experts” tell us that:

1. Not fighting them increases recruitment.
2. Fighting them increases recruitment.
3. Calling them names increases recruitment.
4. Voting for Trump increases recruitment.
5. Listening to Rush LImbaugh increases recruitment.
6. Protesting against men going into women’s bathrooms increases recruitment.
7. Reading the bible increases recruitment.
And the beat goes on.

Any questions?

[TChad]

"When people see a strong horse and a weak horse, by nature, they will like the strong horse"
-Osama Bin Laden, 2001

So Islamic terrorists, who's the strong horse now?

Speak up, we can't hear you!