Asked on ABC about Syria, Walker raises prospect of US boots on ground
Source: Milw Journal Sentinel
Asked on ABC about Syria, Walker raises prospect of US boots on ground
http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/news/290469921.html
By Craig Gilbert of the Journal Sentinel
Feb. 1, 2015 10:20 a.m.
Washington, D.C. -- Asked on ABCs This Week Sunday ..............
Raddatz asked: You dont think 2,000 air strikes is taking it to ISIS in Syria and Iraq?
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I think anywhere and everywhere, we have to be go beyond just aggressive air strikes. We have to look at other surgical methods. And ultimately, we have to be prepared to put boots on the ground if thats what it takes.
Raddatz asked: U.S. boots on the ground in Syria?
Walker responded, I dont think that is an immediate plan, and added, I wouldnt rule anything out. I think when you have the lives of Americans at stake and our freedom loving allies anywhere in the world, we have to be prepared to do things that dont allow those measures, those attacks, those abuses to come to our shores........
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This is no surprise.
JeffHead
(1,186 posts)So nukes are an option too right tough guy? Just another shoot first ask questions later neo-con stooge. I give Raddatz credit for at least trying to nail jello to the wall.
YvonneCa
(10,117 posts)...excellent. She wasn't allowing him to give non-answers...which is what he was trying to do. It was clear he knows NOTHING about foreign policy. Nothing.
riversedge
(70,351 posts)TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)the first thing that pops into my head is, "Wonder what the Governor of Wisconsin would do?"
George II
(67,782 posts)Brigid
(17,621 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)....willing to risk others' lives.
JDDavis
(725 posts)They number in the hundreds in the House and Senate and in many state governors' seats throughout the land.
George II
(67,782 posts)....it's their cavalier attitude when it comes to sending OTHER men and women to war.
If they served, or if their children were in line to serve, they might think more seriously about sending Americans off to war.
Skittles
(153,226 posts)not only do they not serve, their kids don't serve either
JDDavis
(725 posts)Oh yeah
NOT ANY!
http://www.biography.com/people/scott-walker-20941829
So he would have been the right age when he dropped out of college to enter Operation Desert Storm, 1990-91. But he didn't. Still eligible for serving when Bush went into Afghanistan (in 2001-present) or to Iraq (2003-present). NOPE, never did that.
An expert on military deployment from experience in the governor's office in Madison, Wisconsin!
riversedge
(70,351 posts)the Democrats who went to IL!!!
JDDavis
(725 posts)Oh, no, no one arrested, actually, were they?
No one killed, and Walker never showed up at the battle?
The ultimate general.
Jimbo S
(2,960 posts)The Dems were in the "Northern Territory".
Too lazy to find a link to the video.
JDDavis
(725 posts)sorefeet
(1,241 posts)like Paul Ryan. They both have been on the government payroll for most of their working lives. The guy who wants smaller government, the same government that doesn't make jobs is their chosen career. Right wing war mongers, more of what we don't need.
Kennah
(14,339 posts)bulloney
(4,113 posts)You have to look at Walker for what he is - a Koch Bros. stooge. He's in a position to do nothing more than oppose everything Obama says or does. Koch stooges would argue with Obama if he said Friday follows Thursday.
Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)Scott Walker is probably a write off somewhere in the he Koch's tax returns. He is a wholly owned subsidiary.
mountain grammy
(26,659 posts)spreading Christian Dominionism far and wide.
Maybe Walker thinks he's protecting America from extremism, but who will protect America from Scott Walker?
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)delrem
(9,688 posts)Kingofalldems
(38,496 posts)Scuba
(53,475 posts)roamer65
(36,747 posts)PeaceNikki
(27,985 posts)aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)and then act like he thinks a journalist is crazy for even suggesting that he ever proposed boots on the ground. I think it's possible that idea won't sell with the GOP now, and not just with the isolationists and libertarian Rand Paul people or fiscal conservatives who don't want to spend another trillion on a war.