A.G. Gancarski
Taking an unusual step of weighing in on a foreign military incursion, Florida Gov. Rick Scott released a statement Friday morning supporting Thursday night’s U.S. military airstrikes on Syria.
“President Trump took the right action and acted decisively. The Assad regime is responsible for the horrendous killings of innocent men, women and children. These chemical attacks against innocent Syrian people are sickening, and it’s about time someone stood up for them. I appreciate our brave military heroes who conducted this mission,” Scott said.
The next decision by this president that Scott opposes will be the first.
U.S. military action, meanwhile, is something almost all Florida Republicans can support.
Yet, Scott’s statement stopped short of the measures, advanced by Sen. Marco Rubio in one of his many media appearances since Thursday night’s airstrikes.
“We need to now move forward through a combination of diplomacy and, quite frankly, the support of groups on ground, particularly non-jihadist Sunni groups, to create alternatives to the Assad regime,” Rubio said Friday morning.
2 comments
Ray Roberts
April 7, 2017 at 11:14 am
Unusual? Not for someone campaigning for the Senate.
Andrew Nappi
April 9, 2017 at 11:13 am
The governor shows he as much a warmongering imperialist as Rubio and Nelson. The US has supported terrorist groups to create civil war in Syria and Marco continues to double down on his support for them. It’s no secret that Syria opposes a pipeline through its sovereign territory that would have negative effects on its Russian ally; and this is why Assad Must Go! There is no concern for human life by the US in Syria, it’s all posturing and posing. The US is the war criminal in Syria; it was the war criminal in Iraq and Libya; it is the war criminal in Yemen. The foreign policy of the US government and both parties is disgusting and the most dangerous threat to peace and stability in the world.
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