Fiorina advocates shooting down Russian planes over Syria

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

I hate to quote Breitbart, but outside of various right-wing sites, I can't find any coverage of this.

http://www.breitbart.com/video/2015/09/30/fiorina-us-should-secure-no-fly-zone-around-us-backed-anti-assad-rebels-be-prepared-to-use-force/

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I don't think I can take Republican presidential candidates seriously anymore. I'll still be happy to talk about their chances, though. I expect this will play well with a chunk of the Trump-flavored crowd, and also with the dumber pro-military voters. What percentage of the GOP primary vote those make up... I'm not sure, but perhaps as high as 50%? (They'll be overlap with other high-profile issues, of course, but I think this can help bring her poll numbers up a bit.)

P.S. I'm guess that her additional claim that Obama and Kerry (and presumably by extension the entire US government and military) have been surprised by Russian maneuvers along our borders (that have been going on at least since Ukraine heated up) is another one of her lies. Not going to bother to check, she's not worth the time.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

Florina from the quote did not say quite what the headline to this thread says. She didn't say shoot, she said be prepared to shoot.

How is that "not quite" what she said?

Fiorina wants a policy that will lead to direct confrontation with the Russians. And she's said she would shoot their aircraft down if Russia does not back down. She is speaking in support of shooting down Russian planes over Syria - she is quite literally advocating that policy.