Bolton: 'If ISIS Went After the Aussies, Then They're Coming After Us'

September 19, 2014/ RedFlag



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GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, FOX NEWS HOST: Former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton joins us. Ambassador, nice to see you.
And last night, the Russian ambassador to the U.N. was here to go ON THE RECORD, and he made statements about air strikes inside Syria as being something that they would certainly oppose.
JOHN BOLTON, FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR/FORMER U.S. AMBASSADOR TO THE U.N.: Well, I think they probably will. I'm not expecting air strikes inside Syria from the United States anytime soon. I think this vote on arming and training the Syrian opposition is probably a fairly insignificant vote. I think it's a minimal part of the president's strategy. And it only lasts until December. I think we have to look very hard at who it is who is going to get these arms. I would have voted in favor of it, but gritting my teeth as I did so. The president is still not facing up to the reality that he doesn't have a comprehensive strategy.

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VAN SUSTEREN: Here's what I don't get. It's that every team we talk about arming the troops, General Dempsey says it's going to take up to a year. Earlier, they said six months. In six months, we could have 5,000 ready to go. But what I'm also hearing is that ISIS in that time would increase by 15,000. Are we --
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BOLTON: It's a fantasy to think that this war is going to be run by arming and training, whether it's the Syrian opposition or the --
VAN SUSTEREN: But the numbers are bizarre. I mean --
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BOLTON: And it's not going to happen any time soon. It's no wonder the president thinks it's going to take three years. In the meantime, ISIS isn't waiting around. The Australian government, in their largest anti-terrorism in Australian history, 800 police officers arrested a substantial number of suspected ISIS terrorists who were about to begin beheadings in Australia. If the ISIS people are coming after the Aussies, they're coming after us very soon, too.

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