Posted on 10/11/2015 10:07:21 AM PDT by jimbo123
Dr. Ben Carson has joined the growing chorus of outrage over Russian President Vladimir Putin's military muscle flexing, telling Newsmax TV a no-fly zone should be created along the Turkish border.
A sophisticated missile defense system should also be put in place to keep Russia's fighter jets in check, according to Carson, a retired pediatric neurosurgeon seeking the 2016 GOP presidential nomination.
"Vladimir Putin has expansionist ideas. He wants to really re-establish a worldwide Soviet influence," Carson told Newsmax TV's Steve Malzberg in an interview aired Thursday.
"He was very unhappy with the dissolution [of the Soviet Union]. Now he's looking for weakness. What we need to do is demonstrate that there is no weakness there."
And that means putting the kibosh on Russia's bullying of surrounding nations, he believes.
"We need to stand our ground with the airspace. I would establish a no-fly zone along the border with Turkey, in no way would I back off," Carson said.
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I should be glad that Venezuela is not part of NATO because Erdogan and his AKP (Muslim Brotherhood) run Turkey as authoritarian and brutal as Chavez and Maduro have run Venezuela.
At least people in Turkey have a better selection of food to eat.
You will have to go look for someone else to give a crap about supporting that particular “member of NATO”
I recall that “member of NATO” denying us flyover when we were embroiled in the ‘90-’91 Gulf war.
FR is filled with leftist crap but it is also filled with far right wingers who shoot first and maybe think later. There seem to be more of them all the time who are willing for someone else to sacrifice themselves or their children for a right wing utopia.
We seem to have a lot of youts who can’t remember sh_t because they were never taught and never lived the Cold War and all that went with it. Did anybody win? Not the way I see it. 58,000 dead for Vietnam and it is still the communists that won. It is probably better off in some ways than it would have been under the crony capitalism and despotism that they did have. I don’t advocate communism.
The free-range idiots are usually just one dimensional thinkers. Good - Bad and not any other thought to it.
The only reason we survived the Cold War is because anything else was just too costly. We usually had people who understood at least that.
There are a lot of people who are nice guys but I would never hire them either.
Won’t work, thanks to Obama’s weakness, we would now have to FIGHT for the no fly zone...controlled by RUSSIA!
Turkey is our enemy & supports ISIS. Yesterday, Turkey bombed a group of
Kurds who were peacefully protesting in Ankara & blamed ISIS. Erdogan is not to be trusted.
Move on Ben.
Focus on genocidal infanticide for profit instead.
It's what your good at.
jmo
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