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To: CatherineofAragon
I think Cruz is talking about Helms' long tenure on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

Much of the conflict is how that committee is voting on Syria.

Back in May the 15 to 3 vote to arm the Syrian rebels, and then most recently the 10 to 8 vote to bomb Syria.

All the experience on the committee is gone. Helms, Biden, Lugar, Kerry, Dodd.

Now you have Corker in the GOP chair and he hasn't been the Senate/on the committee very long, and just months as minority chairman.

We have a very inexperienced Congress with the big turnover in 2006, 2008, 2010.

It is foolish to let Congress make this decision, because many/most of them don't know squat about foreign policy.

13 posted on 09/12/2013 10:52:27 AM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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To: Ben Ficklin

They may no longer be on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, but Biden is VP and Kerry SOS. If this is what ‘experience’ gets us, I’ll pass.


17 posted on 09/12/2013 2:08:09 PM PDT by Spirit of Liberty (Time to go Galt!)
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