Strategy in Syria | Jeb Bush

Our ultimate goal in Syria is to defeat ISIS and to achieve long-term political

stability in the country.

Defeating ISIS requires defeating Assad, but we have to make sure that his regime

is not replaced by something as bad or worse. The last thing we need in Syria is

a repeat of Libya, with its planless aftermath, where the end of a

dictatorship was only the beginning of more terrorist violence including the

transition free of more sectarian bloodletting will depend on the credible

moderate forces we help to unite and build up today. To that end, my strategy

would be to bring American influence to bear in four important areas of action.

First, a coordinated international effort is essential to give serious moderate

have been supporting fighting groups in Syria. But these groups are not always

working to common purpose. And if there's anything that moderate forces in Syria

would be to draw the moderates together and back them up as one force. And we

the enemy, but in helping them form a stable moderate government once ISIS is

defeated and Assad is gone. It is a tough, complicated, diplomatic, and military

done. We saw, in the Iraq surge, how Islamic moderates can be pulled away

from extremist forces. And the strategic elements in both cases are the same. We

have to support local forces and we must stay true to our word. Second, we have to

nothing. We've spent a

half a billion dollars on a program that has gotten us 54 recruits. When that

happens, you know, that the plans not working out really well.

and got the same result. The website. Just sayin'. The reality is our recruitment

reliable actor in the region, and we have to change that impression with a clear,

United States of America. Third, we must, over time, establish multiple safe zones

in Syria. It's a measure of progress that we joined with the Turks to create a