Carly Fiorina: U.S. Has 'Done Its Fair Share' On Syrian Refugees
Republicans are always happy to get the United States into more wars. Dealing with the aftermath... not so much. Here's Republican presidential nominee Carly Fiorina on this Sunday's Face the Nation, claiming that the United States has "done its fair share" when it comes to the refugee crisis we're seeing in Europe right now, and fearmongering about the possibility of another terrorist attack if heaven forbid we take some of them in.
DICKERSON: Other news from the week I would like to get your reaction to, which is this migrant crisis, the refugees, these pictures we have seen. What is the U.S. role in this humanitarian crisis?
FIORINA: Well, those pictures are unbelievably heartbreaking.
And, unfortunately, we have known this crisis was coming for a very long time. This is an example of what happens when the United States fails to lead. President Obama had options in Syria three years ago. And he failed to exercise any of those options.
And he has watched as this humanitarian crisis has grown and grown. It isn't surprising, actually, that these refugees are pouring out of Syria. We now have somewhere between 43 million and 60 million refugees on the move around the world because they are trying to escape conflict zones like Syria.