Posted on 09/15/2014 3:54:13 PM PDT by GulliverSwift
Ted Cruz is back in the headlines after what can be most charitably described as a bit of showboating at a summit of Middle Eastern Christians. Much has been written about that controversy, but one of Cruz’s comments received relatively less attention than it deserved.
“ISIS, al-Qaeda, Hezbollah, Hamas and their state sponsors like Syria and Iran, are all engaged in a vicious genocidal campaign to destroy religious minorities in the Middle East,” Cruz said. “Sometimes we are told not to loop these groups together, that we have to understand their so-called nuances and differences.”
“But we shouldn’t try to parse different manifestations of evil that are on a murderous rampage throughout the region,” the junior Republican senator from Texas continued. “Hate is hate. And murder is murder.”
Even the crowd that booed Cruz off the stage mostly applauded these lines.
What Cruz is encapsulating here is perhaps the most common view of the war on terror held by neoconservatives and other hawks on the right. All forms of radical Islam—sometimes without the radical qualifier—are essentially indistinguishable and should be treated as equally threatening to American interests.
That’s why in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, carried out against the United States 13 years ago last week, Baathists in Iraq received as much or more attention than al-Qaeda. Iran joined Iraq and North Korea in the “Axis of Evil.” Rather than more specific ideological descriptors like Salafist jihadism, we were understood to be fighting all-purpose Islamofascism.
The United States under George W. Bush ultimately heeded the advice of those who thought Iraq was a more important target than Afghanistan...
President Obama is now hearing similar advice from those who think it important to fight Iran and/or Syria rather than ISIS.
(Excerpt) Read more at theamericanconservative.com ...
My memory is that he toppled the Taliban and then went after Saddam.
The article goes on to imply that Cruz is too stupid to know that we can't take them all on at once.
Obama, of course, is the one who has been bringing down governments on behalf of Muslim Brotherhood and their various Al Qaeda offshoots. And effectively built ISIS in an effort to overthrow Assad. And now that they have jumped the shark now has to build the coalition that will bring them under control... while at the same time promising to build and arm yet another ISIS.
But Cruz is the one who doesn't understand the nuances.
Ha?
This guy is trying to hard to differ with what Cruz said, to the point of putting words in his mouth - 'Cruz is right but what he didn't say is wrong'.
Even printed in a blog named the “American Conservative” I somehow doubt Mr. W. James Antle the Third’s conservative bonafides. In his little rant he mischaracterizes Cruz’s principled actions as grandstanding, quoted David Frum as a policy expert, and urges us to take a more nuanced approach to dealing with Muslims who want to kill us. Sounds like a beltway hack to me.
Read God’s War on Terror - Islam, Prophecy & the Bible by Walid Shoebat, as I did this last week. A world war is coming with Islam (not ‘radical Islam’ - just ISLAM). It’s only a matter of time. The sooner we realize that the better.
+1
A Nazi was a Nazi, and a Muslim is a Muslim. File this whole thing under “We can pay now, or pay later.”
Its also the reason our society is losing the ability to distinguish right from wrong.
A simplified view, when rooted in obvious truth, often is the only way to understand an issue if one wants to summon the determination to deal with it head on.
This clown would have us peasants go back to watching TV and leave our futures in the policy hacks' more capable hands.
“That’s why in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, carried out against the United States 13 years ago...”
Ha.
American Conservative feels the need to explain what 9/11 is in their articles.
They sure hold a high opinion of target reader, don’t they?
“The American Conservative” is a very misnamed website
Exactly Skeeter. We are suffering from analysis paralysis. All of these groups are part of an Islamist revival that have as their aim some form of Caliphate using their idea of “pure” Islam. The fact that they have different sects keeps them fighting each other but they all threaten perceived infidels with the stark choice of convert, submit, or die. All forms of fundamentalist Islam are incompatible with Western civilization and liberal democracy.
Let's not forget that the US funded and trained isis which is why they made such quick gains
Any action in soetoro's "war by committee" will be just enough to raise his poll numbers.
Any real war will have to be waged by President Cruz.
The mohammadens are a ruthless and formidable foe and their evil cult must be fought and vanquished wherever it rears it's satanic head.
Christianity and Judaism command that you love your neighbor, honor his marriage and his possessions, don't lie,steal or murder.
mohammadens are commanded to lie to their neighbor, behead him, rape his wife, enslave his children and take his stuff.
I'm on FR almost every day and this is one of the first times I've seen it. Looks to me like a Trojan Horse, just like some of those "true conservative" organizations that were spending millions pimping for amnesty or one of the "lifelong Republicans" who calls into Rush from time to time to slam Rush and conservatives.
“The American Conservative” is a tool for the anti-Israel Pat Buchanan types.
A Brahmin speaks.
Bold emphasis added by me.
This is an absolutely true statement and we would do well to repeat it over and over and over, until the lib idiots get it through their numb skulls.
(And a few so-called conservatives, as well.)
What seems to have happened is that the U.S. created ISIS by getting too interested in deposing Assad in addition to withdrawing from Iraq too soon.
No...saying "the U.S." creates a "we" situation.
I lay this entire fiasco right on the doorstep of that muslim-sympathizing piece of excrement that currently occupies the White Hut and every ass-kissing sycophant he surrounds himself with.
Perhaps it is Islam itself, manifested as has, as a mass movement, is a definite threat to those interests - perhaps an existential one.
To be a, so-called, "moderate" Muslim, it seems to me, is to be the radical, certainly radically different than the mainstream of that orbit.
The world is more than the writer will allow, but the world is more just the same.
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