Washington – U.S. Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump said on Sunday the Middle East would be more stable if Muammar Gaddafi and Saddam Hussein were still in power in Libya and Iraq, saying it’s “not even a contest”.
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Trump mentioned the countries in comparison to current efforts to drive Syrian President Bashar al-Assad out of power.
“You can make the case, if you look at Libya, look at what we did there, it’s a mess,” Trump said on NBC.
“If you look at Saddam Hussein with Iraq, look what we did there, it’s a mess. It’s going to be the same thing” in Syria, he said.
Asked by NBC’s Chuck Todd if the Middle East would be more stable with Gaddafi and Saddam in power, Trump replied, “Of course it would be.”
Trump, who leads the field of Republicans seeking the presidency in the November 2016 election in public opinion polls, has said he supports Russian efforts to fight Islamic State militants, even though Russia has backed Assad.
Trump said last week Assad might be replaced by someone worse if he were ousted.
The White House opposes both Islamic State and Assad, blaming him for attacks on civilians that have radicalized the opposition. President Barack Obama warned Russia on Friday that its campaign in Syria would pull Moscow into a “quagmire”.
Trump is 100 percent correct on this topic.I always thought it would have been better to have a zookeeper for those animal’s in the middle east. Now they are all running around wild with no control whatsoever.
yes on the button we knew this at the start but where was trump then
Takah right!! These savages need a leader. Look at Egypt Tunisia Libya etc…..all the wild west now because there’s no leader. ..
He’s right. The Arab Spring was a failure. These animals only understand force.
Yeah Hitler brought stability to Germany and Stalin to Russia. Trump has no morals.
To #5 -Your remark was wrong. When Saddam was in power, all of the dissident and terrorist groups feared him and his sons, as they kept those savages in line. Once Saddam was deposed, the Iraqis began taking revenge and settling old scores. The chaos in that country has continued for over twelve years. Bush was dead wrong to have invaded Iraq, as he brought further instability to that area, and essentially helped create ISIS.