Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina let loose on President Obama Monday over his comments at the G20 Summit in which he said he isn’t “interested” in “pursuing some notion of American leadership.”
In an interview with radio host Hugh Hewitt, Fiorina said the president’s comment “enrages me,” while going on to contrast Obama’s reaction to what French President Francois Hollande said in the immediate aftermath of the attack on Paris Friday night.
“It enrages me. I have been angry since all of this started,” Fiorina told Hewitt. “It enrages me.”
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“Let me just contrast it: What did President Hollande say? What he said was we will wage a war that is ‘pitiless.’ That is the appropriate response,” Fiorina opined. “That doesn’t necessarily mean 10,000 boots on the ground, but it means acknowledging that ISIS is at war with us and, therefore, we must be at war with them. It requires us to name the enemy — Islamic terrorism.”
“It requires us to acknowledge the reality [that] they are not contained,” Fiorina continued. “That Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton’s declaration of victory in Iraq in 2011, and their precipitous withdrawal against all advice from every general and for political expediency, and nothing more, has given ISIS vast swaths of territory, weaponry, and they are building their caliphate, and building … an ability to strike in Europe and in the U.S.”
“President Obama is delusional based on his comments today,” Fiorina added, before repeating her opposition to the Obama administration taking in Syrian refugees.
“We cannot let people into this country unless we know who they are what their intentions are,” Fiorina said. “And we know for a fact that we do not have a process in place to appropriately vet these people.”
Obama’s remarks in Turkey Monday seemed to be pointing directly at Donald Trump and his “Make American Great Again” slogan.
“What I’m not interested in doing is posing or pursuing some notion of American leadership, or America winning or whatever slogans they come up with, that has no relationship to what is actually going to work to protect the American people and to protect people in the region who are getting killed,” he said during the press conference. “I’m too busy for that.”
