Ted Cruz for President -- 2016 Candidate Would Fight Islamic Supremicism ---
On Saturday, December 5, 2015 at 2:33:57 PM UTC-6, Travis wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > http://www.nationalreview.com/article/427983/ted-cruz-for-president-2016-candidate-would-fight-islamic-supremacism > Ted Cruz Is the One Candidate Who Can Face down Washington — And Win > > Andrew C. McCarthy > > *T*o protect American national security we must first understand what > threatens American national security. We must grasp who our enemies are, > what animates them, and how they work together — despite their internecine > rivalries — to destroy us from without and within. We must stop trying to > define “true Islam” and start restoring our own principles as our guide: > liberty, equality of opportunity, the rule of law, and peace through > strength. > > The vast majority of Americans still believe in these principles. It is > Washington that has lost faith. It is Washington that looks at liberty’s > enemies and sees friends; that looks at anti-Western Islamic supremacists > and sees “moderates” it can play ball with; that looks at lawbreakers and > tut-tuts that “the system is broken.” > > Reinvigorating American principles will require taming Washington. It > calls for restoring the Constitution as a vital limit on government, not a > relic . . . or an obstacle. > > Ted Cruz gets this. Many Republicans talk the talk — we hear it in every > election season, right up until it is time to stop campaigning and start > governing. Senator Cruz walks the walk. That is why I believe he should be > the next president of the United States. > > Cruz understands that the most immediate enemy the United States confronts > on the world stage is Islamic supremacism, which ignites jihadist violence > through its state sponsors, terror networks, and activist organizations. > The senator has not just fought against President Obama’s disastrous Iran > deal, which enriches the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism while > making it a threshold nuclear power. Cruz has concurrently pushed for the > designation, at long last, of the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist > organization. > > *RELATED: When Cruz Makes His Move, Watch Out > <http://www.nationalreview.com/article/425183/when-cruz-makes-his-move-watch-out-eliana-johnson?target=topic&tid=>* > > The Shiite and Sunni branches of radical Islam have their differences with > each other, but they are united in opposition to America, Israel, and the > West. They are tied together by a common ideology: Islamic supremacism and > its totalitarian legal code, sharia. The Shiite supremacist regime in Iran, > its Hezbollah militias, and its Syrian client, Bashar al-Assad, clash > violently at times with the Brotherhood and the jihadists that its Sunni > supremacist ideology breeds — the Islamic State, al-Qaeda, and Hamas. > Indeed, even within these factions there is bloodletting. > > *Senator Cruz walks the walk. That is why I believe he should be the next > president of the United States.* > *------------------------------* > > The rivalries are put aside, however, where America is concerned. That is > why, for example, Iran has had a strategic alliance with al-Qaeda since the > early 1990s. It is why Iran backs Hamas, the Brotherhood’s Palestinian > jihadist branch. It is why Iran and Syria worked with Sunni terror cells to > funnel jihadists to Iraq, where they attacked American soldiers. It is why > the Brotherhood, for all its moderate pretensions, has preached and > practiced jihadism and sharia encroachment against the West since its > inception. It is why, when Washington plays with fire by aligning with > “moderate Islamists,” it inevitably ends up arming violent jihadists. > > Infighting inevitably breaks out between rival Islamic supremacist > factions, as it has in Syria. When it does, it will often be the case that > “the enemy of my enemy is not necessarily my friend.” That is how Senator > Cruz recently put it in explaining that there is no American interest in > the triumph of one set of our enemies over another. > > It is disappointing to find Max Boot belittling this perfectly accurate > observation as “simplistic.” > <https://www.commentarymagazine.com/foreign-policy/cruzs-weak-grasp-of-foreign-policy/> > > But it is campaign season. Mr. Boot is an adviser to Senator Marco Rubio > and, like much campaign rhetoric, his stumping is as incoherent as it is > misleading: Just a few lines before implicitly conceding that Cruz regards > Assad as America’s enemy, Boot bizarrely claims, based on nothing, that > Cruz “imagines that Assad is a possible ally against ISIS.” > > Speaking of imaginations run wild, noticeably absent from Boot’s critique > of Cruz is the word “Libya.” That, you may recall, is where Senator Rubio > and other Beltway Republicans decided it would be a fabulous idea to > collude with President Obama and then-secretary of state Hillary Clinton to > help Islamic supremacists oust the regime of Moammar Qaddafi. Up until the > moment Washington switched sides, Qaddafi had been supported by the Bush > administration, the Obama administration, and the bipartisan Beltway > clerisy as a critical American counterterrorism ally. > > *RELATED: Ted Cruz Calculates a Path to the Nomination > <http://www.nationalreview.com/article/425362/ted-cruz-calculates-path-nomination-george-will?target=topic&tid=>* > > A lot of us “simplistic” analysts who’d spent a bit of time studying > radical Islam, and who are quite supportive of the use of U.S. power to > quell jihadists (as opposed to, say, pursuing the illusion of > sharia-democracy), objected that Washington’s “moderate Libyan rebels” > <http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/426064/trump-right-wed-be-better-qaddafi-which-was-us-position-until-obama-and-beltway-gop> > > were heavily infused with enemies of the United States — Muslim Brotherhood > operatives and al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorists prominent among them. We > warned that if Qaddafi were overthrown, Libya would disintegrate into a > jihadist haven. > > Today, Libya is a failed state: a jihadist sanctuary where Americans have > been murdered, where Western nations and institutions have fled after > repeated attacks, and where, in Sirte, the Islamic State now controls a > “colony” just 400 miles from Italy > <http://www.businessinsider.my/isis-now-controls-key-libyan-city-2015-11/#bPk2THzBkhERp8uK.97> > . > > *RELATED: How Ted Cruz Became a Sessions Republican > <http://www.nationalreview.com/article/427240/ted-cruz-jeff-sessions-republican-on-immigration?target=topic&tid=1683>* > > When Ted Cruz says “the enemy of my enemy is not necessarily my friend,” > he is saying we should resist in Syria a repetition of the Libya debacle, > which begins with resisting the temptation — in Washington, the obsession — > to presume that the Middle East teems with secular democrats. If that is > simplistic, we could use a lot more simplicity. > > National security is hard. I admire Senator Rubio, and I believe he was > right to defend the NSA’s metadata collection, which can help us map > terrorist cells and disrupt their plots while making no meaningful > intrusion on the privacy of law-abiding Americans. I understand why, after > seven years of the Obama administration, the public is suspicious that > government will abuse its powers, and I’ve conceded that there is a weighty > argument that indiscriminate bulk-data collection exceeds statutory (but > not constitutional) limits. Still, I think it was a mistake for Congress to > degrade the program in the USA Freedom Act. I wish Senator Cruz had not > supported that legislation, but I expect that a President Cruz would be an > effective advocate for counterterrorism surveillance efforts that (a) are > concretely shown to enhance our security, and (b) are appropriately > deferential to legitimate privacy concerns. > > In any event, the erosion of a surveillance tool needs to be put in > perspective. It is a relatively small problem compared with the promotion > of illegal immigration: the undermining of the rule of law and the > integrity of border enforcement for the dubious purpose of creating rights > for alien lawbreakers. It is a relatively small problem compared with > regarding Islamists as potential allies when they share the jihadist goal > of implementing sharia — including the Islamist regime in Turkey which, > when not championing Hamas and Hezbollah and providing a jihadist gateway > to Syria, exhorts Muslim immigrants to resist assimilation in the West. At > a time when Europe’s peril illustrates the danger of giving jihadists the > advantage of unassimilated Islamic enclaves in which to meld, these are the > policy errors that most demand our attention. Wednesday’s killing spree in > San Bernardino is a painful reminder that jihad is not some faraway threat; > it is here. > > Addressing our policy errors will not be easy. It will require taking on > Washington, which will fight tooth and nail against an overhaul of its > Islamist-friendly ways. In this cycle, the Republican party is fortunate to > have a stellar field of candidates. But only one of them can be depended on > to face down Washington. > > That candidate is Senator Ted Cruz. The office of the president is > mandated to uphold our Constitution, pursue our interests, and protect our > homeland. Ted Cruz’s extraordinary gifts give me confidence that he will > execute these solemn duties faithfully and effectively. I am proud to > support him. > > *— Andrew C. 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