No one is suggesting that military combat alone is going to solve this problem. but in order to bring the people who canthe socalled reconcilables. the people who are willing to try and work toward a longlasting solution and eradicate the ones who will notit will take a military strategy and a political framework. I will just close on this. There has been a lot of concern about refugees. I have heard it in my office and we have all heard it from our constituents back home. Whose heart doesnt break for people who have been run out of their own homeland. who have seen family members murdered by a butcher like Assad in Syria? But this is not a new phenomenon. We have known since the Syrian civil war started. following the Arab Spring in 2011. that hundreds of thousands. indeed millions of Syrians have fled their country. have been dislocated within the country. have moved into refugee camps in Turkey and Jordan. in Lebanon. and now they are going to Europe and some of them are showing up here in the United States. I would bet. if you ask every single one of them or most of the refugees. would you prefer to live in safety and security in your own land or do you want to go somewhere else. they would say: I want to stay here. So we need a policy that will actually allow Syrians to stay in Syria and Iraqis to stay in Iraq. but in the absence of any kind of military strategy. no political framework. and no solution from the Commander in Chief. these poor people have nowhere else to go. So we need to create safe zones in Syria. We can do that. We can create a nofly zone in cooperation with our partners there in the Middle East. We need to create safe zones in Syria. where tens of thousands of refugees who are now trying to flee Syria could actually live. with our help. This means areas where innocent men. women. and children can be protected from attacks both from the air and from the ground. zones where they dont have to worry about being murdered 24 hours a day by ISIS or by the bloodthirsty regime of Bashar alAssad. Congress should not have to tell the Commander in Chief how to conduct a successful military campaign or what a strategy looks like. But you know what. It takes the Washington Post editorial to tell the President that what he is saying is the alternative is just not true and that there are constructive ways we can turn the tide against ISIS and provide more stability and safety to people who prefer to stay home and not flee to distant shores and create consternation here in the United States about whether we are adequately screening these refugees to make sure they are not a threat to us here. It is my hope the President will consider thoughtful options that are being proposed by Members of Congress. I will bet there are thoughtful options being proposed by the Presidents own military advisers. but he is just simply not listening to them and stubbornly resisting reconsidering his failed strategypetulant is what the Washington Post called it.
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