and we need to learn from history, these same leaders, obama, clinton and far too many republicans want to topple assad. assad is a bad man. gaddafi is a bad man. but they were assisting us at least gaddafi and mubarak in fighting terrorists. and if we topple assad, isis will take over syria and it will worsen national security interests. and the approach inset of a democracy promoter we ought to hunt down the enemies and kill isis rather than creating opportunities for isis to control new countries. senator rubio, isis is clearly growing in turkey. senator cruz says you haven t
and if we topple al assad, the result will be isis will take over syria and it will worsen u.s. national security interests. and the approach, instead of being a woodrow wilson democracy promoter, we ought to hunt down the enemies and kill isis rather than creating opportunities for isis to control new countries. senator rubio, isis is clearly growing. senator cruz says you haven t learned your lesson do. you have any regrets for supporting president obama s intervention in libya? the revolt against gaddafi was not started by the united states, it was started by the libyan people. and i argued we needed to get involved because he was going to go one way or the other and the longer the civilian war takes, the more militias would be formed.
west of some of those same countries to be precise. and does he have a point that turkey is not doing enough to stop isis, and especially the flow of terrorists across the turkish/syrian border and the sale of the black market sale of oil coming in from syria into turkey? what we have discovered, and we had the turkish am bbassadorn yesterday to talk to the members of my committee, along with the ambassador from jordan and iraq and saudi arabia on specifically the issue of closing down the border. but it is not just oil sales that are ending up going to the turkey, it is also that isis is selling this to assad s regime as well. and so as you know, there is hard evidence on this now, wolf. so in fact, there is a little bit of the projection here. this is what has been for a long time one of the examples of the way in which assad s regime, even while they use eisis as a