Kentucky Senator Rand Paul on Sunday said he was “very proud” of President Trump for his decision last week to withdraw U. S. forces from…
Kentucky Senator Rand Paul on Sunday said he was “very proud” of President Trump for his decision last week to withdraw U. S. forces from Syria.
Appearing on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Paul’s comments came during a wide-ranging discussion with host Jake Tapper on the role of American troops in the Middle East .
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“I’m very proud of the president,” Paul said about the president’s decision to withdraw forces from Syria. “This is exactly what he promised, and I think the people agree with him, actually. I think people believe we’ve been at war too long in too many places and we do need to turn attention to problems we have at home here. Roads, bridges, schools. We have a lot of problems in our country and people are tired of spending — we spent several trillion dollars on these wars everywhere and the president promised he would be different. And it’s really one of the reasons he won, because he actually attracts independents who aren’t beholden to either party who say, ‘You know what? Why don’t we turn attention back to America?’”
Paul responded to Tapper’s question about what the Turks could do once U. S. forces are gone with a call for those in favor of a lasting presence overseas to justify it in light of the fact that those — like General Mattis himself — have “sort of admitted that there is no military solution” to Syria or Afghanistan.
