On John Frederick’s Radio show, Senator Tim Kaine referred to our Syrian policy as a joke,
“In Syria, the strategy’s a joke,” he said on “The John Fredericks Show” broadcasting from Chesapeake, Va.
“The idea that you can train 30 people and put them in a civil war featuring millions and have them be effective is highly fanciful,” said Kaine, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
“You could tell they were Sisyphus trying to roll the boulder up the hill.” …
He said Friday that the United States shares blame with other world powers for failing to address Syria, where a long-running civil war has spurred a mass migration from the country.
“All of this is because the nations of the West haven’t come up with a real strategy about what to do with respect to Syria [and] the U.S. is right there on the fault list with everybody else,” Kaine said.
“All of this is because the nations of the West haven’t come up with a real strategy about what to do with respect to Syria [and] the U.S. is right there on the fault list with everybody else,” Kaine said.
“It is a catastrophe inside Russia [and] the latest Russia involvement is going to make it worse,”
Kaine also expressed the opinion that the only way to bring a lasting peace to Syria is with the expulsion of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
“We all know that there needs to be a next chapter in Syria,” he said. “There is no way that Assad can be that future leader.
“He is butchering his own people. It is the atrocities of Assad that have forced most of the refugees to leave.”
President Obama agrees that Assad must go while Russian President Putin supports Assad as the leader of the Syria.
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Wonder what policy he is disagreeing with. There doesn’t seem to be one … unless no policy is considered a policy. And the USA isn’t just ON the list of bystanders, we are at the very top.
It doesn’t appear that anyone has any influence with Obama.
To name a few: Valerie Jarrett, CAIR, Media Matters, and Black Lives Matter.
I think this might be the Obama will be gone in fourteen months but I want to stay around foreign policy “conversion experience”, take it for what it’s worth. He doesn’t seem to have any problems with the administration’s Russian or Chinese policies that hold a lot more risk for every American then Bashar al-Assad and the $500M spent on a boondoggle to produce 60 trainees NONE of which were ever deployed into the conflict anyway. Or the alarming erosion of our nuclear deterrent under his dear leader. I can agree with one thing there is a joke here without doubt.
Thanks! Full audio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVlCibi9jLw
No, we smelled the coffee when Bush 43′ took us into Iraq.
And now, we are drinking the coffee, and it doesn’t taste good.
Did Kaine tell you what our Syria policy should be?
Or, was he much to busy trying to make sure illegal’s are getting government assistance, that he didn’t have the time to lay it all out for you?