Syria War Powers Resolution
Floor Speech
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Mrs. LUNA. Mr. Speaker, I will start out by saying ISIS has been destroyed. A few hundred troops will not stop the next terrorist dot- com, and that is never going to end. I am, frankly, tired of hearing the sentiment on both sides that if we do not fight them there, they will come here. There are way too many countries to apply that logic.
If we are so concerned, then why is the majority of the U.S. Government stagnant on the southern border where it matters. Terrorists are literally walking in.
Better yet, if that is a true concern, then why did we leave billions of dollars in equipment during a botched withdrawal in Afghanistan? Do you really think terrorist dot-coms aren't going to use that equipment like ISIS did?
Peace is accomplished through superior firepower, strong leadership, and a plan, not blunders of failed foreign policy literally repeating itself.
We have zero strategic advantage and zero reason to be in Syria. In fact, they don't even want us there.
Al-Assad and Putin are tight. If you check out some of Russia's naval warships, they are actually hanging out in the western port of Syria. What we need to be focusing on is a bigger issue like China.
Syria is a very dangerous place for us to be leaving a few hundred Americans. We are better off sending those troops to places like South America, where we can build stronger and useful allies who will actually work with us.
Make no mistake, if we take China at their word, a near-peer fight is coming. It will require 100 percent of our military and more than the American people are going to pay for it. That is why I support this resolution.
Mr. Speaker, if I can also add, to those of my colleagues that had mentioned the Kurds, our NATO ally Turkiye, who is not the best NATO ally, might I add, has deemed them a terrorist organization. After the take-back of Mosul, we actually turned our back on them after promising to recognize them as a nation at the United Nations.
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