![]() He challenged the UN to pressure North Korea: “The United States is ready, willing and able, but hopefully this will not be necessary. Rocket Man is on a suicide mission for himself and for his regime.” He also warned North Korea: “The United States has great strength and patience, but if it is forced to defend itself or its allies, we will have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea. In his address, Trump defended his philosophy of “America first,” explaining how it was compatible with America’s international leadership by advocating a world of “strong, sovereign nations” living in harmony while also retaining their own identities and responding to the needs of their own citizens before others. The United States and our allies are working together throughout the Middle East to crush the loser terrorists and stop the reemergence of safe havens they use to launch attacks on all of our people. It is time to expose and hold responsible those countries who support and finance terror groups like al Qaeda, Hezbollah, the Taliban and others that slaughter innocent people. We must deny the terrorists safe haven, transit, funding, and any form of support for their vile and sinister ideology. We will stop radical Islamic terrorism because we cannot allow it to tear up our nation, and indeed to tear up the entire world. We agreed that all responsible nations must work together to confront terrorists and the Islamist extremism that inspires them. In Saudi Arabia early last year, I was greatly honored to address the leaders of more than 50 Arab and Muslim nations. McMaster is known to discourage the use of the phrase, and Trump did not use it in his speech on the 16th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks last week. On the campaign trail in 2016, Trump attacked the Obama administration and his opponent, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, for refusing to refer to radical Islamic terror in an attempt to appease the Islamic world (while at the same time denying that there was anything authentically Islamic about self-proclaimed Islamic terrorists). ![]()
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