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U.S. NEWSThursday 19 November 2015
Bush calls for US ground forces to fight Islamic State
THOMAS BEAUMONT
Associated Press
CHARLESTON, South Caro-
lina (AP) — Republican
presidential candidate Jeb
Bush on Wednesday called
for theU.S. to send more
troops to the Middle East to
fight the Islamic State.
“This is the war of our time,” aged Syria.
Bush said in a speech five
days after Islamic State mili- of presidents, is project-
tants attacked Paris and
killed 129 people.
“The United States, in con-
junction with our NATO allies
and more Arab partners,
will need to increase our
presence on the ground,”
he added. He offered no
specifics, but said the num-
ber of Americans sent to
the region should be, “in
line with what our military
generals recommend —
not politicians — will be
necessary to achieve our
objective.”
The speech came as Eu-
ropean nations hunted for
conspirators in the attack
and amid a fierce political
debate within the U.S. over
whether to limit or halt the
resettlement of refugees
surging fleeing war-rav-
Bush, the brother and son
ing himself as a potential
commander in chief able
to handle such challenges,
as his own presidential bid
tries to gain traction in a pri- anything, it’s that we are
mary campaign likely to be
shaken up after the Paris
attacks.
Viewed a year ago as the
likely front-runner, the for-
mer Florida governor has
failed to move to the top
tier of Republican White
House hopefuls in a field
where political outsiders
Donald Trump and Ben
Carson and charismatic
young lawmakers Marco
Rubio and Ted Cruz have
eclipsed him. The state-by-
state primary contests be-
gin in February.
“The brutal savagery is a re- allowing wholesale federal
minder of what is at stake
in this election,” Bush said
at The Military College of
South Carolina, known as
Citadel.
“We are choosing the lead-
er of the free world. And if
these attacks remindus of
living in serious times that
require serious leadership.”
Bush has long faulted Presi-
dent Barack Obama’s ad-
ministration, and former
Secretary of State Hillary
Rodham Clinton — the
leading Democratic presi-
dential candidate — for
No threats found on 2 diverted
flights from US to Paris: Report
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Au- The flight in Canada was
thorities cleared both Air postponed until Wednes-
France flights bound for day evening and passen-
Paris from the U.S. that were gers were accommodated
diverted because of anon- in Halifax.
ymous threats phoned in Keith Rosso of Santa Moni-
after they had taken off. ca, California, a passenger
Air France Flight 65 from Los on the flight from Los An-
Angeles International Air- geles with his fiancee, said
port to Charles de Gaulle “everything was smooth,
Airport in Paris was divert- everything was great, ev-
ed to Salt Lake City Inter- erything was going swell”
national Airport Tuesday for the first two hours of the
night, Air France said in a flight, then things changed.
statement. At about the “The flight attendants
same time a second flight, quickly came by and
Air France 55, took off from cleared plates, then there
Dulles International Airport was an announcement
outside Washington and that we were making an
was diverted to Halifax on emergency landing and
Canada’s East Coast, offi- that the flight attendants
cials said. were trained exactly for
Passengers got off both situations like this,” Rosso
planes safely and were told The Associated Press
taken to terminals. by phone from the airport
American authorities inves- in Salt Lake City.
tigated and found no cred- He said he looked at the
ible threat, according to flight monitor at his seat
an FBI statement released and saw that “we had
late Tuesday night. made a pretty sharp right
The Royal Canadian turn — we had been al-
Mounted Police said inves- most near Canada — to-
tigators found no evidence ward Salt Lake City.”
of an explosive device Rosso said an FBI agent in-
after they searched the terviewed the passengers
plane and luggage. after the landing.
Air France said in a state- In Halifax, the Royal Cana-
ment that the flight in Salt dian Mounted Police led
Lake City took off for Paris the investigation.q
at 12:29 a.m. Wednesday.
Republican presidential candidate, former Florida Gov. Jeb
Bush, gives a speech on foreign policy and national defense,
Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2015, on the campus of The Citadel in
Charleston, S.C.
(AP Photo/Mic Smith)
and non-military spend-
spending cuts prompted ing alike, at a time when
by the 2013 budget recon- conflicts in Syria and Iraq
ciliation after Congress and “spiraled out of control as
the president were unable President Obama and Hill-
to craft more strategic cuts. ary Clinton failed to act,”
The cuts affected military Bush said.q