For 2305 these come at a fortuitous moment since we're taking a look at foreign policy in class.
General info:
- Vox: Paris attacks: what we know.
- Vox: The 7 Biggest Myths about ISIS.
- Vox: 18 things about ISIS you need to know.
Here's some political background.
From NPR: U.S. Political Reaction To Paris Attacks Split Along Party Lines.
General info:
- Vox: Paris attacks: what we know.
- Vox: The 7 Biggest Myths about ISIS.
- Vox: 18 things about ISIS you need to know.
Here's some political background.
From NPR: U.S. Political Reaction To Paris Attacks Split Along Party Lines.
In the wake of controversy of any kind, even terrorist attacks, U.S. politics is never far behind. The American political response — from President Obama to the candidates vying to replace him — in the hours following the Paris attacks has been unsurprisingly split along party lines.
What is interesting, however, is that Democrats, who are set to debate Saturday night, have kept their responses generally to thoughts and prayers — with little in the way of policy prescriptions.
That's understandable, given that a Democrat currently controls the White House and the candidates wouldn't want to appear to undermine the current president of their own party, especially on matters of foreign affairs. But they will be pressed on foreign policy and national security as a result of the attacks at the outset of Saturday night's debate, according to a source with knowledge of debate preparations.
Republicans, on the other hand, are issuing lots of policy specifics and ratcheting up rhetoric, intimating that what's being done — and been done in the past seven years by President Obama — to keep the country safe is not enough. They are calling for an increased U.S. footprint in the Middle East, including "boots on the ground," a halting of plans to increase the numbers of Syrian refugees to the U.S., and an increase in the role of the National Security Agency in surveillance and intelligence-gathering capabilities.
