On cue, Fox newscaster, Brian Kilmeade, a pro-war neocon, argues for US troops to remain in Syria to ‘stop the next 9/11 attack’. Meanwhile, Senator Rand Paul points out that 99% of ISIS has been eradicated and that Syria should be able to finish the job. He says the US has been in Afghanistan for 17 years, and Islam needs to police Islam. -GEG
Senator
Rand Paul appeared Thursday morning on Fox and Friends to discuss his
meeting with President Trump on pulling out of Syria and Afghanistan.
Brian Kilmeade, who criticized Paul yesterday
on Twitter for supporting pulling out of Syria, similarly sparred with
him today, saying the reason to stay in Syria is to “stop the next 9/11
attack.”
“When we had the 9/10 policy of Bill Clinton of not letting al Qaeda
metastasize in Afghanistan, they end up taking, killing thousands of
people here in New York City,” Kilmeade said.
“When we had the Barack Obama policy of pulling out of Iraq prematurely we get ISIS it almost lose the entire region.”
Rand responded: “We’ve been in Afghanistan for 17 years. So people like
yourself saying, oh it’s precipitous we’re going to leave Afghanistan…
We’ve been there 17 years! You will say the same thing in 17 more
years, say oh it’s too soon to leave in a thousand years you could say
that. These people are going to be killing each other in a thousand
years.”