Hillary Clinton Shows Trump And Cruz How A President Responds To Terror

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton cast her Republican presidential counterparts’ national security proposals as “dangerous” in a speech on counterterrorism at Stanford University Wednesday.

While Clinton said “it’s understandable that Americans here at home are worried” about the Islamic State network, which claimed responsibility for attacks in Brussels that killed at least 32 people Tuesday, she said the United States needs “to rely on what actually works, not bluster that alienates our partners and doesn’t make us any safer” to protect against terror.

Clinton said that Cruz’s “patrol and secure” proposal was akin to treating Muslims like criminals and was “wrong, counterproductive and dangerous.” And carpet-bombing, she argued, “doesn’t make you sound tough; it makes you sound like you’re in over your head.”

“It’s hard to imagine a more incendiary, foolish statement,” she said of his “patrol and secure” proposal. Clinton also called Muslim Americans a “first line of defense” against national security threats. “One thing we know that does not work is offensive, inflammatory rhetoric that demonizes all Muslims,” she added.

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