Former White House national security aide Sebastian Gorka defended President Trump’s decision to use military force against the Syrian regime in a tense Fox News panel Friday evening.
The former Trump official argued with Fox News’ Laura Ingraham that the U.S. was right to launch a “precision” strike against on Syrian targets to send a strong message.
“To anybody who has doubts, think about this one question,” Gorka said. “What happens when the outside regime uses chemical weapons, as secretary Mattis said, and as he did last year, and I saw the intelligence, and we do nothing? What message does that send to Iran, to Assad, to proxies? Because it sends a clear message as far as I’m concerned, that we got away with it and we can do it again.”
While Ingraham argued that the U.S. should stay out for reasons such as the U.S. national debt, Gorka argued that the international community needs the U.S. because “without American leadership, there is no action.”
“Yeah, we’re out of money. We have no dough. It’s not 1995 anymore, Sebastian,” Ingraham snapped back.
“So, we let children get gassed,” Gorka argued back in his closing line.
The exchange came just moments after President Trump announced that the U.S., in a combined operation with the United Kingdom and France, launched a strike on Syria in response to the recent use of chemical weapons by the Assad regime.
