Bolton on Strike on Assad’s Forces: ‘We Were Entirely Within Our Rights to Protect Americans’

‘I think that’s the signal you have to send, you don’t mess with American forces without consequences’

EXCERPT:

HEMMER: "Southeastern part of the country, that's where Jordan, Syria and Iraq come together. The U.S. is operating a zone of protection, you could call it, training those in Syria to go after ISIS forces and that’s where this operation is underway. You cannot take a chance that you get a vehicle that could be turned into a weapon or a bomb with U.S. forces in the middle of the desert."
BOLTON: "We've seen it happen too many times. What looks like an innocent approach by a female driver turns out to be a suicide bomber. So having suffered from this in the past there is no doubt that after giving appropriate warnings, all agree that happened, we were entirely within our rights to protect Americans to make that strike."

Video files
Full
Compact
Audio files
Full
Compact