as long as assad is in power in syria there are going to be radical sunni groups in syria as a result of that. pete: sure, senator, a lot of people asking the logical next question. what do you replace bashar al assad with that s better with him. you replace him with a syrian government that s not run by a dictator. i never said syria was going to going new zealand in the next two years. cannot be not be ungoverned space. proxy of iran and vladimir putin and also not be an ungoverned place is that true ideal playground for jihadist groups to come in and organize and spread their poison and their murder. ainsley: how would you prevent it from becoming another libya though? look what happened in libya. in libya that conflict was protracted. after the conflict ended there was known engagement from the international community. it descended into chaos: look at syria the majority are not syrians they are foreign fighters. went into syria because there
was no government in vast portions of the country. we have to figure out and i believe that there are. they are not the best armed. not the best equipped. not the best capable right now. non-jihadiists sunni syrians who are prepared to govern spaces of syria and be at that table when not just assad s departure and i hope charges on war crimes also alternative for syria being negotiated politically. steve: senator, let me ask you this, you were senator from florida during the obama years and when you would z. war crimes like this happen or atrocities around the world and there would be international cry hey, united states, do something. and we didn t do anything, how do you feel now that you ve got a commander-in-chief owho looks at things on a case-by-case basis you know what you? are right. we have got to do something right there. boom, we did it? i think the decisiveness is important. i think what he did last night was critical. and, i will say one more thing. i think the president
zareef as the only mass use of chemical weapons in the 80 s. iran condemns the use of all weapons of mass destruction of begin next begin. let s hope he is referring to mr. assad and the weapons of mass destruction he used on his own people. steve, i think that s one of the key issues here. look, john kerry declared in july of 2014 all chemical weapons were gone. and that was an agreement between the united states and russia which clearly was either a ruiz or more importantly the russians may have allowed the syrians to manufacture more. either way it s a direct violation of that look, i support my liberty caucus friends and rand paul. we need to bring this to congress and have a debate on it i do understand why mr. trump was feeling the necessity to both strike the target, which the chemical weapons came from as well as changing the narrative, regarding the fact that we ll not sit back and allow