Terrorism Key Issue in US Election in Wake of Paris Attacks

Last week’s horrific terror attacks in Paris have thrust foreign policy and national security issues front and center in the 2016 U.S. presidential election campaign. Republicans, led by Donald Trump, wasted little time in criticizing Democratic President Barack Obama’s handling of the threat posed by the Islamic State (IS) group. “Weakness has shown that when you are weak and ineffective, bad stuff does happen,” Trump told supporters at a rally in Tennessee. Most of the other...

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