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Posted on 05/28/2015 6:34:55 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
As the various candidates made the media rounds this week, there was one interview which jumped out at me. It was Carly Fiorina sitting down with Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC and taking one of the tougher questions facing every White House aspirant… if elected, what do you plan to do about ISIS? The answers we frequently get are disappointing at best – if there’s an answer given at all – but this time the reporter almost seemed shocked to have somebody lay out numerous elements of a plan in plain, clear language.
Before we get to the specifics, check out the brief video and the transcript.
Andrea Mitchell: “What would you do now against ISIS?”
Carly Fiorina: “I would do very specific things. First, instead of having a Camp David conference to talk our Arab allies into a bad deal with Iran, I would have had a Camp David conference to talk with our Arab allies about how we can support them to fight ISIS. Let me give you very specific examples. The Kurds have been asking us to arm them for three years – we still have not. The Jordanians have been asking us to provide them with bombs and material. We know King Abdullah of Jordan – I’ve known him for many years – he took the appropriate leadership steps when a Jordanian pilot was burned alive. He was here in this country asking us for bombs and material. We haven’t provided him with any of them. He’s now looking to China for that. The Egyptian president, a very brave and pious Muslim, who has said there is a cancer in the heart of Islam, has asked us to share intelligence. We are not. The Turks have asked us to help them topple Bashar al-Assad. We are not. There are a whole set of things we’ve been asked to do by our allies who know this is their fight, and we’re not doing any of them. So I would hold a Summit and talk with them about that.”
There are two things to touch on relating to this exchange. First there is the obvious matter of what the plan is. Honestly, I had some questions about it myself as I heard Fiorina explaining it. From the 10,000 foot level there’s nothing wrong here. Getting the actors in the affected region more involved on the side of the good guys (or the least bad guys that can be found in this case) is a necessity. Offering requested aide to any marginally trustworthy leaders who are willing to take sides against ISIS is a win for us. But we also can’t afford to be unrealistic in terms of just how active Jordan and Egypt will be. Their plates are rather full of terrorist badness at the moment and they’re just not going to be sending huge ranks of troops into Syria or Iraq no matter who is leading the charge. But they can still provide some help, and if we have the resources they need it’s worth looking at. As for the Turks… well, I’ve given up on them for the time being in terms of helping anyone but themselves. The Kurds, on the other hand, are ready to fight. In fact, they are already fighting, and could probably do a lot more if we supported them more completely. I think Fiorina is on the right track there.
The second element of this interview, though, could serve as the next installment of our series on This Is How You Do It. Too many candidates – particularly Hillary Clinton – fail to answer this question in a concrete fashion. They’re happy to cast blame on those who came before and run down the ideas of their competitors, but they rarely lay out any concrete steps for fear of being criticized or proven wrong later. This doesn’t do much to inspire confidence. Whether you agree with her plan or not, at least Fiorina was willing to answer the question and demonstrate that she’s been considering the crisis and is forming a plan for how to deal with it. And if you disagree with her, well… isn’t that the point of having a primary? We’re supposed to be getting all the plans out there so the voters can decide which ones sound best and toss their support to the candidates they agree with.
I’m still not signing on as a committed supporter of Carly, or any other candidate for that matter. But watching the way she deals with both the media and Hillary Clinton, I do like the cut of her jib. A few more interviews such as this from the rest of the field – or candidates on the debate stage showing the intestinal fortitude to put their specific plans forward for consideration – could make for a more productive political atmosphere. More like this please.
It's all about the cards we're dealt. When the choice was Romney, Newt,Loon Paul, or Santorum, I went with Santorum in a heartbeat. If the choice is Ted Cruz, Scott Walker, or Santorum... sorry Rick, better luck next time.
Fiorina is just being hyped into being something she's not. I had similar issues in hindsight with Paul Ryan, but at least he had a consistent track record of winning.
Somewhere in this is no mention that if she were to create a 39 or 49, I forget, honestly, behemoth of compaq and hp, she would collect a bonus from both. We (the accused deadwood that we’re accused of being here on FR) watched her collect her bonus by adding cpq and hp gross sales together and made her bonus. What was that? About $19 mil? Andrew C. got that running hud into the ground. And enough to run a campaign for gov of ny. For the rest of you deniers, did you know that hp paid for her cross-country shipping of her sailboat? Ironic that it may cross-country ship yet again.
When muslims are killing muslims, give them more weapons and ammo.
Anybody but ours is fine. That way it won’t be ours killing our own people eventually.
To shoot us with? They have our hummers and lots of hardware now. Works great huh?
The board schmord. She made the calls.
Oh, so hilary winning the NY senate seat was such an accomplishment?
Certain CEO’s have a specialty in cutbacks and they’re hired for that reason.
If I remember correctly, HP was a manufacturer of electronic equipment for the industry in the 1950’s/60’s with emphasis on military electronics before their adventures with the PC industry. I’m quite sure that they had built up quite a complement of military-industrial overhead that needed quite a bit of culling the herd.
She very much supports globalization, outsourcing jobs etc...
And she did it as CEO of a multi-national.
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It may have been a requirement for the long-term health of the company. She didn’t create the economic climate that she had to compete in. Therefore, I don’t feel I know enough to judge her performance at HP.
I am okay with free trade with some nations. However, it must be fair trade.
Again, I really don’t know enough about her to say either way. There are some candidates I currently like better and that includes Cruz.
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Fiorona is an incompetent clown like most of the Washington establishment. Her proposals vis-à-vis the Islamic state are as juvenile as the moronic liberals who think more government money will fix everything. To destroy the Islamic state will mean recognizing Assad’s continued right to rule Syria. To overthrow Assad means the further expansion of Sunni fundamentalist power in the middle east. One path is mutually exclusive of the other. To claim otherwise is patent nonsense akin to a whore claiming technical virginity. The entire Washington establishment is speaking with forked tongues because they actually do not want to do anything about Isis at all. One cannot speak of the Vietnam war without mentioning the role of the Soviet Union and PRC in backing the Vietnamese communists yet Isis has apparently seized half of Iraq and Syria after manifesting from the desert air. Simply put Isis is the catspaw of the Gulf petrostates and Turkey. They keep the former funded and supplied and allow and even actively facilitate the entry of Jihadists into the war. The Islamic state exists because the Sunni’s want it to, believing it to be a useful tool to roll back Shia in general and Iranians specifically. The US has the capability to roll back and destroy the Islamic state in weeks if it wanted to. It does not, so everyone is making pious sheep noises about Isis barbarism while the enablers continue to keep giving them money. Idle hands are the devil’s playthings and in this case the rich petrol sheiks have decoded that Jihad is a worthwhile activity instead of working for a living. It will be interesting to see if the Gulf states and Turkey can keep the crazies on a leash to direct them against targets of their choosing or if will slip free and eventually behead them in turn for insufficient zeal in Mohammedanism.
You do realize that precedent now strongly favors “natural born citizen” being analogous to “natural born subject” in the sense of Blackstone’s reading of English common law, not “natives” in the sense of Vattel, so your continuing to dwell on the dual jus-soli/jus-sanguinis requirement is not particularly meaningful.
She was born on my birthday!
They’re trying to fight for their lives, not coming for us. Besides the ones that are our enemies are being armed by Obama. Where have you been?
islam is the enemy of non islam. Where have YOU been? Did you not read the Pentagon report as to who we armed?
I like that. Kill,conquer or contain. Has a nice ring to it.
It does, doesn’t it. But thats what ‘history’ did with muslims. Killed and or conquered for the most part, from the crusades through the British Empire or contained until recently. There were no 9/11 type scenarios (relative to their time) and no Sharia spreading throughout the world.
Did you not read the Pentagon report as to who we armed?
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This report that says Obama is arming ISIS?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3294349/posts
Who is helping him? The GOP. Who turned out to be ISIS? Moderate Muslims. Whose weapons are being used to kill innocent Christians? Ours. Who is responsible? The people who elected them.
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