with the russians themselves. and ultimately, it doesn t do you a lot of good, because you need ground stability as well. you actually need to have some protection on the ground to stop those forces from moving in under the airplanes. so, you know, i think senator paul is right that this isn t as simple as it ultimately sounds. now, i think that paul comes across as defeatist. he really has no answers for how you defeat extremism in the region. and a lot of us would argue that there needs to be much more engagement on the political side on the ground to try to convince the shia regimes to be inclusive of sunni populations that are being pushed towards extremism today. but he s certainly right that there s no easy military answers in that region right now. all right. senator chris murphy, thanks for your time. thanks. one of the big battle lines drawn last night, perhaps the biggest, was on immigration, where you have donald trump on the one hand calling for deporting 11 million p
systems that can potentially shoot down american planes. you are going to be putting yourself in conflict, perhaps, with the russians themselves. and ultimately, it doesn t do you a lot of good, because you need ground stability as well. you actually need to have some protection on the ground to stop those forces from moving in under the airplanes. so, you know, i think senator paul is right that this isn t as simple as it ultimately sounds. now, i think that paul comes across as defeatist. he really has no answers for how you defeat extremism in the region. and a lot of us would argue that there needs to be much more engagement on the political side on the ground to try to convince the shia regimes to be inclusive of sunni populations that are being pushed towards extremism today. but he s certainly right that there s no easy military answers in that region right now. all right. senator chris murphy, thanks for your time. thanks. one of the big battle lines drawn last night, per
and guess who that is? that s people like paul wolfowitz and dick cheney, the folks that got us into this mess in iraq in the first place. and that s maybe the most dangerous suggestion coming out of these debates, is that these guys just aren t going to be very involved in foreign policy. they re going to let the interventionalist neo conservatives take back over the white house, which is an invitation to disaster. you know, there s a moment, a lot of people calling for no-fly zone in syria. i want to play a moment in which rand paul rose in dissent, chi thought was interesting. you re asking for a no-fly zone in an area in which russia already flies. russia flies in that zone at the invitation of iraq. realize that means you are saying, we are going to shoot down russian planes. if you are ready for that, be ready to send your sons and daughters to another war in iraq. what did you think of that moment? i thought it was a rare moment of clarity. so rand paul s right about thi
they re going to let the interventionalist neo conservatives take back over the white house, which is an invitation to disaster. you know, there s a moment, a lot of people calling for no-fly zone in syria. i want to play a moment in which rand paul rose in dissent, chi thought was interesting. you re asking for a no-fly zone in an area in which russia already flies. russia flies in that zone at the invitation of iraq. realize that means you are saying, we are going to shoot down russian planes. if you are ready for that, be ready to send your sons and daughters to another war in iraq. what did you think of that moment? i thought it was a rare moment of clarity. so rand paul s right about this. this is, you know, the kind of the new sexy issue in syria policy, is a no-fly zone. but it is much more complicated in that you have complicated russian-built air defense systems that can potentially shoot down american planes. you are going to be putting yourself in conflict, perhaps,
policy, is a no-fly zone. but it is much more complicated in that you have complicated russian-built air defense systems that can potentially shoot down american planes. you are going to be putting yourself in conflict, perhaps, with the russians themselves. and ultimately, it doesn t do you a lot of good, because you need ground stability as well. you actually need to have some protection on the ground to stop those forces from moving in under the airplanes. so, you know, i think senator paul is right that this isn t as simple as it ultimately sounds. now, i think that paul comes across as defeatist. he really has no answers for how you defeat extremism in the region. and a lot of us would argue that there needs to be much more engagement on the political side on the ground to try to convince the shia regimes to be inclusive of sunni populations that are being pushed towards extremism today. but he s certainly right that there s no easy military answers in that region right now. all