Lindsey, their ‘ideology’ is the Quran.
Via Aiken Standard:
Lindsey Graham didn’t mince words hours after the Belgium terror attack that claimed more than 30 lives Tuesday, and injured dozens more at the Brussels airport and metro station.
The U.S. Republican senator from South Carolina made it clear to the Aiken Standard in a sit-down interview: the U.S. is not at war with Islam, but an ideology.
“I think we’ve been at war since 9/11,” Graham said. “Name one person in the entire Congress who’s been more outspoken than I have about the nature of the war. It’s a war against an ideology. There’s no capital to conquer in terms of winning the war. There’s no Air Force to shoot down, there’s no Navy to sink.”
Bombs exploded early Tuesday at the Brussels airport and one of the city’s metro stations, locking down the European capital and raising security threats and concerns both in Belgium and abroad.[…]
“The people in Belgium, our heart breaks for you,” Graham said. “Because people lost their lives for no good reason (Tuesday).”
Graham called for an increase to the United State’s military force in the areas of Iraq and Syria from 3,500 to 10,000 soldiers on the ground. He said the U.S. must work with Iraqi security forces and encourage large armies, including Egypt and Saudi Arabia to be part of those forces.
“The way you destroy ISIL in Syria is you create a regional army and go in and dig them out. … So to those who want to win this war from the air, you can’t,” Graham said, conflicting with earlier statements made by GOP presidential candidate and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, who Graham announced his support for after former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush suspended his campaign.
Cruz’s call to carpet bomb ISIS, coupled with GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump’s calls to ban all Muslims from coming into the United States until leaders figure out how to stop another terror attack, makes “no sense,” Graham said.