Ted Cruz is a religious myth believing islomophobic asshole to ignore.
On Monday, November 16, 2015 at 12:56:23 PM UTC-6, Travis wrote: > > > > > > [[ You don't defend what your sole purpose in life is to destroy. ]] > > > > > > *The Truth: “Barack Obama Does Not Wish to Defend this Country”* > > By Onan Coca <http://eaglerising.com/author/onancoca/> / 16 November 2015 > > > > * “I recognize that Barack Obama does not wish to defend this country. He > may have been tired of war, but our enemies are not tired of killing us. > And they’re getting stronger.”* - Ted Cruz > > Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) has long been a strident critic of President > Obama’s foreign policy, which is likely why he continues to poll among the > top 3 or 4 candidates in the GOP race for the presidential nomination even > though he is far and away the most conservative candidate in the race. Cruz > has been consistent, vocal and secure in his foreign policy vision and that > vision stands in stark contrast to the one that Obama has used to decimate > our planet. > > In the aftermath of the Muslim terror attacks on Paris (and President > Obama’s insistence that he had ISIS “contained”), Senator Cruz spoke to > the students at Bob Jones University > <https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/11/14/cruz-obama-does-not-wish-to-defend-this-country/> > > in Greenville, South Carolina about what has been one of the biggest > failures of the Obama administration. > > *“I recognize that Barack Obama does not wish to defend this country. He > may have been tired of war, but our enemies are not tired of killing us. > And they’re getting stronger.”* > > [image: Description: Obama SHUSH] > <http://eaglerising.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Obama-SHUSH.jpg>Sadly, > instead of working to defend our nation from the Islamist threat, president > Obama and his liberal allies plan to put us all in danger by accepting > hunrdeds of thousands of Syrian refugees. Cruz argued that America can be > kind, benevolent and supportive without opening ourselves up to attack from > the Muslim radicals we are fighting. Instead of taking in thousands of > refugees, Cruz pushed for the government to help resettle them in other > majority Muslim Middle Eastern nations, while allowing Christian refugees > asylum in the USA because they face persecution in Muslim nations. > > Cruz then went on to pray for the families of the victims of the Paris > attack and for President Obama and other world leaders who are even now > being forced to make some very difficult decisions and important plans. > > *“We ask that our leaders understand this is not some random, ill-defined > random extremism, this evil, radical Islamic terrorism needs to be called > out what it is, and it needs to be defeated… radical Islamic terrorism… a > malevolent force that right now, as we speak, is persecuting Christians, is > persecuting Jews, is even persecuting fellow Muslims. … This is an evil > that must be confronted.”* > > Cruz continued by saying that while we must confront the evils of radical > Islam, that doesn’t mean a full-scale, “boots on the ground” war effort in > the Middle East. > > *“That doesn’t mean we should be sending our sons and daughters to invade > foreign countries and stay there forever and engage in nation building > trying to turn Iraq into Switzerland. That’s not what our objective should > be.”* > > Instead Cruz argues that we should be supporting our allies in the region > as they take on their enemies directly. > > *“We have boots on the ground. The Kurds are our boots on the ground. We > ought to be arming the Kurds and using overwhelming air power…”* > > > Even as he delivers this hard-hitting confrontational speech, you can see > Cruz threading the needle that is presidential politics. In the 4th GOP > presidential debate last week, Senators Rand Paul and Marco Rubio went > head-to-head with two opposing views of the future of American foreign > policy, showcasing the diversity of opinion which exists in the GOP on this > topic. Cruz attempted to offer a 3rd way that took the road between the > libertarian non-interventionist and the neocon war-hawk (not that Rubio is > a neocon, other than military spending and amnesty he has shown himself to > be far more fiscally conservative small-government oriented than the > traditional neocon). Cruz’s vision continues to showcase a strong military > but without increasing the already high military budget. He also plans to > continue to help our allies fight ISIS but without introducing American > soldiers into combat. Cruz is *attempting* to weave a foreign policy that > will be attractive to both the doves and the hawks… whether or not he can > *actually* do this, remains to be seen. > > > > > __._,_.___ > ------------------------------ > Posted by: "Beowulf" <[email protected] <javascript:>> > ------------------------------ > > > Visit Your Group > <https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/grendelreport/info;_ylc=X3oDMTJmYjBydDE5BF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzIwMTk0ODA2BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTMyMzY2NwRzZWMDdnRsBHNsawN2Z2hwBHN0aW1lAzE0NDc2OTIxMTQ-> > > > > [image: Yahoo! Groups] > <https://groups.yahoo.com/neo;_ylc=X3oDMTJlbTlzcnZuBF9TAzk3NDc2NTkwBGdycElkAzIwMTk0ODA2BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTMyMzY2NwRzZWMDZnRyBHNsawNnZnAEc3RpbWUDMTQ0NzY5MjExNA--> > > • Privacy <https://info.yahoo.com/privacy/us/yahoo/groups/details.html> • > Unsubscribe <javascript:> • Terms of Use > <https://info.yahoo.com/legal/us/yahoo/utos/terms/> > > __,_._,___ > > > -- -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. 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