Clinton: I have a plan to ‘defeat and destroy ISIS’

Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton on Friday vowed to defeat the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), touting a comprehensive plan and her experience as secretary of State as reasons she can keep the nation safe.

“The others, they talk a lot, they throw out all of these approaches,” Clinton told supporters in Tulsa, Okla.,  according to the Associated Press. “But I’ve been in the situation room in the White House and I know what it’s going to take, and I will keep America safe.”

{mosads}The former secretary of State proposed a more aggressive plan than President Obama’s, “not to deter or contain ISIS, but to defeat and destroy ISIS.”  Republicans have criticized both Obama and Clinton for a foreign policy that they say let ISIS grow and the Middle East fall apart.

Clinton was stumping in a deep-red state, but one that holds its primary on March 1 with close to a dozen other “Super Tuesday” states. She needled Oklahoma’s Republican Gov. Mary Fallin for refusing to expand Medicaid and promised to “protect and defend Medicare against Republican attacks to voucherize it.”

“It’s not going to help the rural economy of Oklahoma for small, rural hospitals to close because they don’t have the funds that they could have had from Medicaid,” Clinton said, according to the Tulsa World.

“You walk into the emergency room and thank goodness they’ll take care of you, but they can’t keep doing that if there’s nobody to pay for it.”