Thread: Trump: GOP rivals want to 'start World War III over Syria'

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/...iii-over-syria

September 26, 2015, 07:44 am

Trump: GOP rivals want to 'start World War III over Syria'

By Meghashyam Mali

Donald Trump on Friday accused his GOP rivals of seeking to “start World War III over Syria” and suggested the U.S. let Russia take up the fight against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS)

"They want to start World War III over Syria. Give me a break," Trump said at the State Fairgrounds in Oklahoma City.

"You know Russia wants to get ISIS right. We want to get ISIS. Russia’s in Syria. Maybe we should let them do it?," he continued. "Let them do it. What the hell are we crazy?"

Trump's statements come as Russia builds up its forces in Syria to help embattled leader Bashar Assad take on ISIS. The U.S. is also leading a coalition against the terror group, but also opposes Assad's regime and has urged him to relinguish power.

President Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet Monday at the UN General Assembly, with Syria a likely topic of discussion.

Foreign policy has appeared to be a stumbling block for GOP front-runner Trump at times.

In a radio interview with Hugh Hewitt earlier this month, Trump appeared to mix-up the names of top terrorists and confused the Kurds with the Iranian "Quds" force – a special military unit.

Trump initially slammed Hewitt for asking "gotcha" questions, but during the second GOP debate suggested he had just been confused by Hewitt's pronunciation of foreign names.

Trump has touted his foreign policy, noting that he was opposed to the Iraq war, pledging to do more for America's veterans and blasting President Obama's nuclear deal with Iran. He has said he would pick top experts for his administration and rely on their advice.

On Friday, he said that the U.S. had only empowered Iran by invading Iraq.

"I said don’t go into Iraq. I’m the most militant person here, the most militaristic person you’ll ever meet. I believe in the military strongly but I didn’t want to see us invade Iraq," he said.

"We spend $2 trillion dollars, thousands of lives, wounded warriors all over the place that I love by the way… we got nothing. We can’t even go over there."

Trump also said Iraq and Iran were growing closer.

"And right now as you are standing here, Iraq is negotiating with Iran . They’re going to merge and Iran is going to get the oil… and the one that gets the rest of it is going to be ISIS."

Wow. I posted a comment about this a few days ago. He's exactly right. We should invite Russia to handle Syria, because they know how to restore order far better than we do. We could along with other countries establish a "safe zone" in Syria so the refugees can all return home and await order restoration there. It really won't take the Russians long to do this.

Take Fiorina who wants to make military threats against Russia but refuses to talk to Putin?!!!! That's just unbelievable, and NOT ONE questioner at the debate followed up on that completely stupid and irresponsible "foreign policy" plan. It's outrageous, it is so wrong. Trump on the otherhand wants to develop good relations with Putin and believes as I do that they would get along very well, because we have so much in common with Russia.

Then take the GOP candidates who want to "tear up the Iran deal", well, you can't "tear up the Iran deal", you can improve upon it, find weaknesses in the language and turn them into your strengths, you can slow comply and use various types of leverage without breaking the agreement, you can also renegotiate the agreement, but what you can not do and what is not the right thing to do is "tear it up". And then the GOP candidates don't say what they would do instead. So much for "policy plans". Trump on the other-hand says no he would not tear it up, he would improve upon it, something he certainly knows how to do from being a contract expert.