Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush called the Friday attack at a Mali hotel yet another example of the ongoing “war against western civilization,” and slammed President Obama for refusing to admit his policies have helped create the situation.
“This is a war against western civilization. It’s a war against us,” Bush told the “Fox and Friends” crew Friday morning. “They’ve declared war and we haven’t.”
“We respond as if it’s a law enforcement operation, and the president’s traveling, upset that climate change isn’t the number one issue this week, refuses to admit that perhaps his policies have helped create some of this,” Bush charged.
Host Steve Doocy then pressed the 2016 hopeful which part of Obama’s policy helped spawn the situation. Bush pointed to the president’s lack of an overall strategy.
“The lack of a policy at dealing with Syria,” Bush said. “We have a caliphate the size of Indiana … that’s where the energy of this comes from. It’s safe haven, and each and every day it exists, you see these outbreaks in other parts of the world. It’s not going away.”
Bush made the remarks after gunmen stormed the Radisson Hotel in Mali’s capital city and took 170 guests and workers hostage.
