Rubio: Obama shares blame for Syrian refugee crisis

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Washington Examiner:

With the crisis surrounding Syrian refugees continuing in parts of Europe, Sen. Marco Rubio on Thursday laid part of the blame at the feet of the Obama administration.

 

In a Fox News interview, Rubio said that the U.S. has helped to allow the situation to "spiral out of control," and told Fox News' Greta van Susteren that the crisis is a result of the administration's decision not to arm the Syrian rebels.

 

"We've allowed this Syrian situation to spiral out of control. I argued from the very beginning of that conflict that the U.S. had a national security interest, primarily because of the rise of [the Islamic State]," Rubio said. "We said if there wasn't alternatives to Assad on the ground that we could work with, some radical Jihadist group would emerge and become the most powerful force on the ground. I was issuing those warnings from the earliest days days of that conflict."