A man with a plan
by digby
So Republican Senator Marco Rubio went on television to reassure America:
Sen. Marco Rubio said on Sunday the Islamic State presents a threat “here in the homeland” thanks to hundreds of European and American fighters whose passports could grant them easy access to the United States.
“This group has among their ranks hundreds, if not thousands, of people with the capacity of entering the United States quickly and easily,” the Florida Republican said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”
Oh my dear God! They’re coming to kill us all in our beds! Thank goodness we have leaders like Marco Rubio with a real plan to save us:
Rubio called for a “sustained air campaign” in Syria that targets ISIL leaders, supply lines and even oil refineries they control and use to generate revenue.
Yep, there you have it. According to all the beltway Chicken Littles, the monsters are coming to kill us, thousands of them but we can stop it with a bombing campaign in Syria to kill the leaders and disrupt their supply lines (“even oil refineries — gasp!).
Apparently, they are planning to invade via Damascus. Perhaps using Saddam’s old crop dusters, I don’t know.
If ISIS is sending in thousands of American and European terrorists to kill us here in “der Homeland” I’m going to guess that blowing up their supply lines in Syria isn’t going to make much of a difference. Killing their leaders is always nice and perhaps a bombing campaign will get that done. One thing’s for sure: it will definitely kill somebody.
Oh, and by the way, this man is considered qualified to be the president of the United States.
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