Ohio Gov. John Kasich suggested on Sunday the current surge of Syrian refugees into Europe could have been avoided if the Obama administration had given greater support to the Syrian rebels fighting the regime of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad.
“We should have been supporting the Syrian rebels years ago,” the Republican presidential hopeful said on ABC’s “This Week.” “I pitched [House Speaker John] Boehner and [Sen. John] McCain on it, the administration ignored it. And the simple fact of the matter is we should have been supporting the opposition to Assad. This thing could be over by now.”
President Barack Obama signed legislation last year to train and arm Syrian rebels, but those efforts have been hampered by the diffuse nature of the groups fighting the Assad regime and the Islamic State, as well as U.S. concerns about arming rebels with ties to Al Qaeda and other radical Islamist groups.
Additionally, Kasich called on the U.S. take in more refugees from the conflict, but acknowleged “this is fundamentally an issue that Europe has to come to grips with.”
“We can provide some humanitarian aid to them,” he added.
Kasich also touted a new poll out Sunday showing him in second place in the GOP presidential field in New Hampshire, behind Donald Trump, and played down the importance of national polls, where he’s much further behind.
“We don’t run a race for president based on national polls,” he said. “We go state by state.”
0 thoughts on “Kasich: Syrian war ‘could be over’ if U.S. had supported rebels”
” Pick me”. ” Pick me”. Governor Kasiich shouts, waving his arms to get the Jews attention.
He is sick…the twisted mentality that ” atomizing Japan ended WW 2″.
More war, to end war….etc. ” We could of stopped Hitler in the Rhineland “, bullcrap.
No. Mr Kasich we /Jews began that war in Syria….backing your ,” rebels”, is the problem.
Since Kasich must know that we are arming the thugs, even training them, that our bombing campaigns carefully avoid dealing them a terminal blow (which “we” are perfectly capabe of doing — think of Saddam Hussein’s army slaughtered from the air) and that Israel is treating their wounded, then by complaining about “not supporting” them he must mean he is advocating a fire bombing of the entire land of Syria.
Dealing with phenomena of life: (For aught that is known in history:)The appropriate thought commonly is this: If you want to solve such a Problem with violence, with acts of violence it simply means that you do not have the solution to the Problem on Hand!!!
Best regards
FS
The US could be over if they had given them any more support, the Russian bear is in town now lets not forget.
Time to shut the hell up methinks, if not for yourself and your family then for the sake of your people whom you’re supposed to represent and quit sucking on that poisoned Israeli teet.
” Pick me”. ” Pick me”. Governor Kasiich shouts, waving his arms to get the Jews attention.
He is sick…the twisted mentality that ” atomizing Japan ended WW 2″.
More war, to end war….etc. ” We could of stopped Hitler in the Rhineland “, bullcrap.
No. Mr Kasich we /Jews began that war in Syria….backing your ,” rebels”, is the problem.
Since Kasich must know that we are arming the thugs, even training them, that our bombing campaigns carefully avoid dealing them a terminal blow (which “we” are perfectly capabe of doing — think of Saddam Hussein’s army slaughtered from the air) and that Israel is treating their wounded, then by complaining about “not supporting” them he must mean he is advocating a fire bombing of the entire land of Syria.
Dealing with phenomena of life: (For aught that is known in history:)The appropriate thought commonly is this: If you want to solve such a Problem with violence, with acts of violence it simply means that you do not have the solution to the Problem on Hand!!!
Best regards
FS
The US could be over if they had given them any more support, the Russian bear is in town now lets not forget.
Time to shut the hell up methinks, if not for yourself and your family then for the sake of your people whom you’re supposed to represent and quit sucking on that poisoned Israeli teet.