Shep Smith Lays Into GOP Rep. for Saying Assad Can ‘Continue to Kill His Own People’
by Matt Wilstein | 4:45 pm, September 4th, 2013
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Ros-Lehtinen began by saying many of her initial concerns of U.S. military action in Syria have been “alleviated” by the hearing, especially Secretary of State John Kerry’s assurances that there will be no “boots on the ground.” When she suggested that the Arab League could assist the U.S. in the operation, Smith began pushing back hard.
“The Arab League has emphatically said no,” Smith corrected the congresswoman. “The British are against it. There’s not a nation on the planet, congresswoman–with great respect and admiration–not a nation on the planet that said if you go do this, we’re right there with you.” As for the question of “boots on the ground,” Smith laid out a worst case scenario and asked if the U.S. is prepared to “stir a hornets’ nest that will leave us in full-scale Middle East war.”
The congresswoman defended the limited scope of the mission by saying that in effect it is telling Assad, “you can continue killing your own people, you just can’t kill them with chemical gas.”
“How do you feel about that message?” Smith asked. “That just doesn’t sound like you.” When she described the current plan as the least bad option,
Smith said, “If every option you have is a bad option, and the one you’re considering costs lots of money and has lots of risk, why don’t you sit here and go ‘wow, we might let somebody else take care of this.’”
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