Posted on 02/01/2015 12:53:18 PM PST by Laissez-faire capitalist
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, who has surged to the top of the potential GOP field, said on "This Week" Sunday that he wouldn't rule out putting U.S. boots on the ground in Syria if he were the commander-in-chief.
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Is he riding the rocket a la Dr. Strangelove/McCain?
Shades of Sen. McCainiac? Or is this staking out of a position to stave off a potential Lindsey Graham entering the fray?
What say you about this?
I don't care who you are... that right there is hard to read.
But I agree with the Walkman - why take options off the table.
Any sane Commander in Chief would not speak strategy with the news media or anyone else.
Is Walker prepared to put boots on the ground In Nigeria to stop Boko Haram which has beheaded many people, killed over 2,000 recently, sold children into slavery, and has publicly allied itself with ISIS (ISIS returned the favor) and wants to create an African caliphate - something which ISIS publicly approves of?
Is Walker prepared to do this?
We already have boots on the ground in Syria.
We need boots on the ground in occupied California.
Oops. I meant to change it from “an Iowa poll” to “a poll in Iowa” and forgot to drop the “n.”
Anyway, let’s not get sidetracked via the use of Red Herrings like you presented and stick to the topic!
No diversions! Thank you! :)
He was surprised that Mitt handed him his 20points and fundraising machine last Monday and has had to come up with POTUS answers to issues on a dime.
Never spoke about foreign policy before except in vague platitudes.
Putting significant numbers of ordinary soldiers on the ground would be shockingly stupid. Ruling out that option would be even more stupid. Walker is not my top choice, in part because I don’t trust him on Amnesty, but he handled this right.
I have no idea what you are talking about except that you seem to be trying to bring Walker down and I don’t know why you want to do this.
Walker is just chest thumping.
Apparently Walker didn’t think this through too well, something that Principled may not have realized.
Obozo and libs of his ilk, are always taking options off the table as part of their foreign policy plans.
Any idiot worth a hoot will tell you that you always leave every option on the table, to include nukes.
Otherwise you have ended negotiations before they started, and weakened your position to the point of 100% failure every time you do it.
Tired of being the world’s policeman. What country is worth the life of any one of our military?
I honestly don’t know what our national security interest is to have troops in Syria.
I seriously wish a black op would be concluded to nuke Mecca and deal a devastating blow to islam everywhere.
If they didn’t get the hint Medina would be next.
Who says we are EVER going to get a sane Commander in Chief again?
More than anything, we need a person who has had REVELANT military experience in actually commanding troops in battle, and done so honorably. Yet we force our military to do battle in inequitable situations, tying them up with excessive “rules of engagement”, and undercut the effects of victory so badly it seems the vanquished was in the end the winner.
Is it little wonder we no longer groom winners to lead this nation effectively?
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