Matt Gaetz

When we lost someone in Mogadishu, did that create a deeper emotional...

connection to Somalia?

Or did that cause Americans to say, what are we doing patrolling around Mogadishu?

Is that the next chapter here?

You're welcoming a good chunk of Syria into the United States?

I mean, a lot of them are already living in Europe.

Damascus was a great secular center of enlightenment and architecture.

Yeah, I introduced the legislation in Congress to take all of our troops out of Syria.

It was defeated overwhelmingly.

When was that?

That was in 2024, last year.

And Ana Paulina Luna, others, and I took to the floor to explain that this would result in American deaths, that those deaths would not be worth whatever gain is attempting to be realized in Syria.

In Syria, we had troops funded by the Pentagon fighting forces funded by the CIA.

And Syria's even an example on the limits of Russia's interventionism.

I took note of the fact that them propping up a government and trying to keep it loyal was not something that was ultimately sustainable for Russia.

And so now we ought to get our troops out.

There's no

thing that we are fighting for there that is an achievable win.

And what were these guys doing?

You hear it on the news now, key leader engagement.