Sanders: ‘I Do Not Want to See American Troops Get Stuck in a Never Ending Civil War in Syria’

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SANDERS: "It’s not a yes or no. I think we absolutely do not want to get involved in this terrible civil war in Syria, which is so destructive, so destabilizing tort entire region but I don’t know that you can pull out tomorrow. Our job now is to work with our allies in the entire region and that is to do everything that we can to bring peace to Syria, make sure that Russia is part of that process, but absolutely, I do not want to see American troops get stuck in a never ending civil war in Syria. By the way, one of the issues that I and some of my colleagues have also worked on where the president is very much on the other side is that is that the United States has for the last several years been supporting Saudi Arabia in another human tear condition crisis in Yemen. You’re looking at one of the worst humanitarian crisis in the world, famine, a million people suffering, people drinking filthy water and what I and senator Lee and senator Murphy have insisted that the time is long overdue for the united States Congress to accept its constitutional responsible for war making and not giving that over to the president and that’s been the case for many, many years. We brought a resolution to the floor. We got 44 votes which is a good start. If the United States is going to get involved in a war, it should not be the president who makes that decision. It is under the Constitution the Congress, Congress has got to re-establish that authority."