Republican presidential candidate former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said during an interview Monday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that a successful strategy in Syria would include American ground troops as a part of a broader international coalition.
Host Joe Scarborough asked, “Governor, are you willing to say this morning that that also requires that we’re going to have to send more than just special ops forces over to Syria if we, if we get an international coalition together, that we’re going to have to send our forces over there and fight this battle alongside our allies?”
“Absolutely we are,” Bush said. “And we need to have a strategy, it needs to be clearly defined, it needs to be a strategy where we fight to win and then we pull out. This is how America is at its best is to lead forces from around the world to do this.”
Bush called the conflict “the war of our time” and the conflict “requires American leadership.”
“It doesn’t require us to be the world’s policemen, but we need to lead, and we’re not doing that right now,” Bush said.
Watch the interview, from MSNBC, below:
