Newsmax: Cruz: US Should Focus on Taking Out ISIS, Not Resolving Syrian Civil War
The United States should focus its military efforts on completely wiping out the Islamic State (ISIS), says Sen. Ted Cruz, but not on getting involved in the Syrian civil war.
That can be tricky, since ISIS is headquartered in Syria. The United States is launching limited airstrikes against the terrorist group in Iraq, but so far has avoided major initiatives in Syria.
ISIS is part of a complicated battle there between the government of President Bashar Assad, moderate rebels known as the Free Syrian Army, and ISIS, which also is fighting Assad, but which has a goal of setting up a caliphate in the areas it controls in Syria and Iraq.
The United States should have an "overwhelming air campaign to take them out," Cruz said in an interview broadcast Sunday on ABC's "This Week."
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