When
asked about more than half of the nation’s governors saying they will
not accept any refugees from Syria, Senator Sanders told Couric: “What
we have got to be is not just strong and tough, but we have got to be
smart.” Sanders continued: “I think in terms of the refugees, clearly it
goes without saying that any refugee coming into this country has got
to be vetted, but to simply say that when hundreds of thousands of
people are fleeing Syria, are fleeing Afghanistan, that we or Europe or
the Gulf region will turn our backs on those people, I don’t think
that’s what America is about.”
On
any concerns about the shift in focus on the campaign trail regarding
foreign policy in the wake of the Paris attacks, Senator Sanders said:
“Of course, focusing on ISIS is enormously important, and we have got to
do that, but I disagree with people who say, ‘Oh, we can’t talk about
the growing gap between the rich and the poor or the fact that we have a
corrupt campaign finance system. We’re not going to talk about that.’ I
don’t agree with that.”
Couric
also asked Sanders if we would be better off had Saddam Hussein
remained in power. He replied: “Saddam Hussein was a brutal, disgusting
tyrant, and the effort would’ve been how do you get rid of him? But to
destabilize that region the way we did, to bring about that chaos and
the incredible cost to us in terms of human life and trillions of
dollars of expenditure, yes, we should not have undertaken that
invasion.”
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