Bush says carpet bombing IS ‘not a strategy’

Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush is panning GOP rival Ted Cruz’s plan to carpet bomb Islamic militants “into oblivion.” And he says leading Democrats are reflexively calling for gun control rather than ramping up the response to attacks in the US.

The former Florida governor tells ABC’s This Week: “Carpet bombing is not a strategy.” He’s calling for gaining the support of Sunni tribal leaders, arming the Kurds and establishing a no-fly zone in Syria, a plan that is similar to Clinton’s.

But he disagrees with her assertion that people on a no-fly list should be barred from getting guns.

Bush says the list isn’t accurate enough to use for restricting gun rights for law-abiding citizens. But he adds that if the FBI is tracking someone who is suspected of terrorism, that person should not be able to buy guns, “for sure.”

—AP