Posted on 09/09/2014 3:46:53 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Last night in an interview with Fox News' Greta Van Susteren, Texas Senator Ted Cruz slammed President Obama's handling of ISIS and the beheadings of two American journalists as "unserious." He also slammed Obama for operating on a "photo-op" foreign policy agenda not tied to protecting "vital national security interests to the United States" and said ISIS has declared war on the U.S.
"Unfortunately from the beginning of this we have seen President Obama being fundamentally unserious about this [ISIS]. He dismissed ISIS at the outset as the Junior Varsity, that turned out to be very wrong then last week he told us 'we have no strategy' to the surprise of nobody," Cruz said. "At this point we have seen ISIS declare war on the United States. They are crucifying Christians. They are beheading children. They have beheaded two American journalists and they have done so on the world stage pledging an intent to take jihad to America."
President Obama is set to address the nation Wednesday night about what his administration is planning to do to combat ISIS. Cruz said in the same interview Obama must come to Congress to obtain approval for new military action, which would require him to lay out a coherent plan and strategy moving forward.
"The value of Obama coming to Congress is it forces the President to articulate clear military objective," Cruz said. "If we don't act now we will see another horrific act of terror on the homeland."
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Cruz has introduced legislation that would ban Americans fighting with ISIS from reentering the United States.
"There are over 100 Americans right now who have gone and are fighting along side ISIS," Cruz said. "The legislation I introduced today in the Senate amends existing law to provide that taking up arms and fighting along side ISIS constitutes a renunciation of United States citizenship so that we can't have people who have joined the terrorists using U.S. passports to come back to commit acts of here at home. It is my hope that we will see bipartisan cooperation passing this legislation."
bump
He needs to start running after the elections, probably a bad idea to declare before the midterms.
He’s already running, he just hasn’t formalized it yet.
By his actions, you shall know him.
It is as plain as day that Obama has taken no action against ISIS because he does not wish to interrupt what they are doing. If ISIS were acting contrary to Obama’s wishes he would stop them; he has the means.
Hopefully he will raise a lot LOT of money when he does announce because the RNC won’t lift a finger to help him
Its a nice sentiment .....however.....Obviously citizenship has very little to do with getting into our country....at all.
So strange......The dems went from “save American jobs” to facilitate the importation of criminals....in only a few yrs....and the union guys.....just go along.....now Thats effective propaganda.
On page 261 of the paperback edition of “Audacity of Hope” Obama wrote: “I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.”
That’s because Obama’s rooting for Isis.
Obama has been “fundamentally unserious” about (fill in the blank)
The United States today is like Great Britain during the Revolutionary War.
Even though the British had the greatest army in the world at the time, it lost to a ragtag group of American colonists because their leader, King George the Third, was mentally incapable of leadership. He was disengaged, delusional, and unable to focus on his duties.
Today, the U.S. President is equally disengaged, delusional, and dysfunctional. He appears no more competent to deal with a group of ragtag ISIS terrorists than George III was able to deal with America’s colonial army.
And then there’s the problem of Vladimir Putin wanting to re-establish the Russian empire, and having a good chance of doing so with President Nobody wandering from one golf course to another with his what-me-worry? smile plastered across his face.
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