Also making an appearance during the Sunday morning US political talk show circuit was Republican Senator Rand Paul, who said that although “it's hard not to hit back” in Syria after the recent killings of three Americans, he wants the US to completely wind up its presence in the country.
“There's no reason for us to be in Syria. We need to leave Syria and not be a tripwire to getting back involved in another war,” Senator Paul said during an interview on ABC's This Week.
He told This Week host Jonathan Karl that at most, the US has approximately 1,500 troops in Syria, and that they continue to be treated as target for nefarious groups.
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“Unfortunately in the Middle East they like nothing more than to kill an American. They do it for the celebrity nature of killing Americans,” Senator Paul said, adding that often the US troops are killed “for the celebrity n
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