Political Quotes

“So as you look at the war in Yemen and you go back and forth and you say ``What are the results of getting involved in this civil war?'' it may well be that al-Qaida gets stronger. If you look at what happened in Syria, the neoconservatives went crazy and said: We should support the moderates in Syria who are fighting against Assad. Well, it turns out the moderates in Syria were al-Qaida-linked, ISIS-linked jihadists. In fact, with one group the neocons said that we must give weapons to, it turned out that as soon as they got anti-tank weapons from us, they said--and this is a quote from one of the leaders days after they got anti-tank weapons from us: When we are done fighting Assad--not ISIS, Assad--we are going to attack Israel to take back the Golan Heights. We did this, and we pumped millions of dollars and hundreds of tons of weapons into Syria, and it didn't work. When we finally quit doing the funding and sending of weapons, that is when the Kurds rose up, with our help, and actually did a much better job. The thing is, there is a perpetual war crowd that ignores the Constitution, and they will say that we should be at war everywhere, and we don't need to vote on it. One, that is a terrible insult to our forefathers and a terrible insult to the Founding Fathers, but as you look at this and you look at the debate, it is also incredibly draining to the Treasury and often has unintended consequences.…”