In a statement Thursday night, Hillary Clinton declared solidarity with the people of France and called for a strengthened commitment to "defeating terrorism."
"Every American stands in strong solidarity with the people of France, and we say with one voice: we will not be intimidated," Clinton said in a statement. "We will never allow terrorists to undermine the egalitarian and democratic values that underpin our very way of life. This cowardly attack only strengthens our commitment to our alliance and to defeating terrorism around the world."
Donald Trump, on Fox News's O'Reilly show of course blustered, saying "we have to be tough" and turned to his usual Muslim ban: "We are allowing people into our country who we have no idea where they are, where they're from, who they are, they have no paperwork, they have no documentation, in many cases."
Asked about Trump's response on CNN, Clinton "said it was 'clear' that the U.S. was at war with terrorist groups, but she said it 'was a very different kind of war.' But, she argued, greater intelligence gathering, not military force, was necessary."
"They would love to draw the United States into a ground war in Syria," Clinton said. "I would be very focused on the intelligence surge. I would be very focused on working with our partners and allies and intensify our efforts against the ideologues that pedal radical jihadism online."
Cooper then asked Clinton if the U.S. was at war with "radical Islam"—a phrase Trump often uses on the campaign trail and says is necessary to identify the threat. Clinton and Obama, however, have largely shied away from using the term, believing that associating terrorists with Islam helps to legitimize their interpretation of the religion.
"We're at war against radical jihadists who use Islam to recruit and radicalize others in order to pursue their evil agenda," Clinton responded. "It's not so important what we call these people as what we do about them, and I think back to our success in getting (Osama) bin Laden, it was important that we built the case, we got the information and the President ordered the raid."
She also, of course, rejected Trump's xenophobic response to the attacks, saying that she "would not short-circuit the vetting process" but "women, children, orphans who are fleeing horrific violence, that's a different category than young men or people who have some record that could be ferreted out as some concern.”