Clinton: US must push Arab leaders to confront Islamic State

Hillary Rodham Clinton says America must lead the effort to fight the Islamic State, but calls on Arab nations to increase their involvement in the wake of deadly attacks in Paris.

In a sweeping address in New York, the front-runner for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination lays out her vision for how to heighten pressure on the Islamic State and combat terrorism at home. Clinton vows to keep American troops out of Syria. And she says the US must accept refugees from the war-torn region even as the nation toughens its defenses and increases intelligence capabilities.

Americans, Clinton adds, must overcome partisan battles and rise above personal fear to combat the threat of jihadism across the globe.

“Islam is not our adversary,” she says, arguing that demonizing the religion, “gives these criminals, these murderers, more standing than they deserve.”

— AP