What do you think about the way Scott Walker didn’t have an opinion on the Muslim immigrants — because he wasn’t yet president — and then all of a sudden, he did?
Do you think his sudden change of heart was justified? Why or why not?
Do you think his change of heart — some are calling it a “flip-flop” — was justified?
MONDAY: “Scott Walker: We’re ignoring the core problem
The Wisconsin governor and GOP candidate told reporters on Monday that talking about Syrian refugees addresses “the symptoms and now that the core problem is.”
“The core problem is the Obama-Clinton doctrine... that has empowered ISIS to take the territory they have in Iraq and continue to have the pretense they have in Syria,” he said from the campaign trail in New Hampshire. “We need to push back, and we need a president [that on] Day One is going to send a clear message by lifting the political restrictions on our military personnel and at the same time by terminating the Iran deal, which is a bad deal... Ceding power to Iran and that region only empowered ISIS and other forms of radical Islamic terrorism.”
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/where-the-2016-candidates-stand-on-the-syrian-refugee-crisis/
WEDNESDAY: “Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker on Wednesday said he opposes the U.S. opening its borders to take in more refugees from Syria.
“No, we shouldn’t be taking on any more Syrian refugees right now,” he said at the Governor’s Small Business Summit in Eau Claire, Wis., according to Wisconsin Public Radio.
“In the last year, America has received almost 70,000 refugees, of which nearly 2,000 are from Syria,” the 2016 GOP presidential candidate said. “We’ve spent something like $4 billion in humanitarian relief in terms of helping the situation in Syria.”
“So, we’re doing more than any country in the world and it’s got to be clear that the problem that has to be addressed is not the refugee issue that’s a symptom, the real problem is this administration fails to deal with taking on ISIS,” added Walker.”
July 2015: WALKER: “The greatest threat to future generations is radical Islamic terrorism,” Walker said. “And we need to do something about that.”
“Today we can start by lifting the political restrictions we put on the military personnel we already have in Iraq today, so they can actually start helping our Kurd and Sunni allies reclaim the territory taken by ISIS.”
“We need to make sure that we acknowledge that Israel is an ally, and start treating Israel like an ally in the United States,” he said.
May 2015: WALKER: “I get awfully frustrated when I hear the president draws a line in the sand and allows people to cross it,” Walker said. “A president who called, just last year, [Islamic State] the JV squad, who called Yemen a success story, who still calls today Iran a place we can do business with. Well, I’ve got news for you, Mr. President. Once and for all, we need a commander in chief that calls it what it is — and that is, radical Islamic terrorism is a threat to us all, and we need to act on it.”
One of his advisor must have told him he was President so decided to take a position.