Christie on Boots on the Ground in Syria: ‘Why Bother?’ with Sending 50 People There

CUOMO: "Putting troops on the ground in Syria, 50 advisers. They're not going to be in harm's way, but it shows the U.S. is doing something. Do you buy this?"
CHRISTIE: "No. Why bother? Sending 50 people there, I mean, you're going to go in and you're going to fight ISIS and you're going to put American ground troops in to fight ISIS, or you shouldn't. And the president doing these kind of half measures are kind of typical of his and Hillary Clinton's foreign policy approach all along."
CUOMO: :The defense is, well, you have some progress being made with these disparate rebel groups that are hard to define, but there is military accountability. There is progress. We're going to put advisers on so they have people to interface with we'll help them help themselves."
CHRISTIE: "And 50 people is going to make the difference in the fight against ISIS, which the president's own counterterrorism director said is the greatest threat to the United States today -- it's ridiculous on its face, Chris. "
CUOMO: "Would you go with 50,000?"
CHRISTIE: "No. What I said all along is set up a no-fly zone in Syria to protect the rebels who are fighting Assad, and secondly to arm, train and unite our allies in the region against ISIS, the Jordanians, the Emiratis, the Saudis, and the Egyptians. And then if that does not work, then you have to consider ground troops from America. But 50 ground troops now sends a bad signal and will not be effective."