At the end of all this engagement, if he survives we are going to have on our hands a potentially emboldened, definitely angry dictator.
Marco Rubio
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U.S. Secretary of State in the Trump administration; formerly U.S. Senator from Florida.
There's reports he's been implicated in things like assassination attempts against and plots against other heads of state?
That's why we have made clear that our political objective here is to make sure that Qadhafi goes.
If Qadhafi survives and holds on, what are the chances that we should take him at his own word that he'll actually have no mercy and no pity?
Our primary objective in this endeavor was to prevent an imminent massacre, particularly in Benghazi, correct?
If he survives this international action against him, we should expect him to feel emboldened.
Congressional leadership in both parties have strongly called for a no-fly zone and other actions and nothing has happened.
But to say we are pressing the United Nations and that is energetic action, the Security Council, is to basically say the United States--and to say that is what we are going to limit ourselves to, what we are basically saying is the United…
The President of the United States has specifically said Qaddafi must go, but has done nothing since saying that.
The United States, quite frankly, looks weak in this endeavor, it looks unwilling or maybe even unable to act in this capacity.
Well, when is that resolution going to happen? After the bloodbath, in the middle of the bloodbath?
I want to focus for a second on the human aspect of it and the humanitarian aspect of it, because the things that are happening in that corridor, along that desert on both sides of that border from a human perspective, are atrocious.
The relationship between Mexico and the United States is a critically important one.
Prosperity and security in Mexico is a positive for the United States and vice versa.
I am worried that, notwithstanding CARSI, that capacity to be able to deal with the challenge by Central American governments certainly, and Guatemala as a prime example of it, is challenged.
It is important to remind ourselves of the importance of our relationship with Mexico.
I recently read a couple of reports that cite something that just chills up my spine where right before making the journey, some women stop and get access to birth control medication because they expect to be raped in that transition point.
You have individuals that are dying in the desert, people that are being preyed upon by gangs and others in the region.
What I am concerned about, and I know you have shared that as well, is that this demand for trafficking in persons is combined with the dysfunctional immigration policy that we have in this country.
Our continued engagement remains essential to strengthen Honduras' democratic institutions.
What happens in the Western Hemisphere is of critical importance to our future.
We are facing, as you all well know, fiscal constraints and a great debate going on in this city about what America should be spending money on, particularly when it comes to foreign aid and foreign programs.





