We ought to be providing protective sanctuaries for the Kurdish rebels. That means finding some places where they can come and to which we will then be able to provide food and water and medical help.
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Long-term, we must figure out a way that the Kurdish territory within Iraq operates with a certain amount of autonomy so that they feel comfortable and safe going back.
My priorities? Assisting our allies, the Kurds, in their fight against ISIS.
There's a certain amount of sympathy here for the Bush administration's problem, which is they would like to get rid of Saddam Hussein and they would like to have the Kurds autonomous.
The Iraqis need help establishing a government. We have to provide them with security.
We must provide all kinds of freedom, personal and economic, to all Iraqis. I will fight for that.
We need to continue our full support of the nascent Iraqi government by helping to rebuild their economic infrastructure and maintain security while training the Iraqi security forces.
We can and must do our part to increase the number of Syrian refugees being resettled in the U.S.
So the idea that you could put Kurds, Shiite Arabs, and Sunni Arabs in a nice, liberal, federal system in Iraq in a short amount of time, six months or a year, boggles the mind.
Just a little help, a small security force, a bit of food, can save lives.
We should be robustly assisting the Free Syrian Army with equipment and also with training.