Summary: The architects of a failed policy are questioning Ted Cruz for questioning their policy.
I have just about reach overload on all the lies coming out in the media. I hate election cycles which now start one month after the elections.
Given the direction these foreign policy “experts” have led the country, I don’t blame them for being suspicious and probably very concerned that the gravy train is about to derail.
He promises to keep us out of unnecessary war, but promises to kill ISIS and make sure Iran does not get the bomb.
So, this may seem contradictory to some, and maybe it is. It is more or less what I think, though.
In any case, whether our next president is Hillary, or Trump, or Cruz, or Rand Paul’s dad, war is coming. We can know that war is coming because its already here, we just haven’t admitted it yet. We have to decide and be clear with ourselves that the next president is a war president; who do we trust to lead during time of war.
From the article: “He trashes neocons and democracy promotion, but then he champions Ronald Reagan and Kirkpatrick,” Boot says of Cruz. “And of course Kirkpatrick was one of the original neocons, and Ronald Reagan made democracy promotion a key part of his foreign policy.”
I just love it how they try to coopt Reagan for their purposes. He was not a Neocon, neither was Jeane Kirkpatrick. I cannot think of one major engagement Reagan got us into other than a foray into Lebanon as part of a peace keeping force. Honestly, the GOPe hated Reagan, did everything they could to stop him and now try to claim him as their own.
Neocons are upset because Cruz doesn’t like neocons?
He might stop the money flow on their pet give-aways.
GOPe have anything to say about Obama? Hillary? The trillions in debt? The wide-open borders?
Or is it just another day of broadsides against conservatives?
Its the neocons who are hiding behind Reagan not the other way around.
Teh GOP Establishment is making a massive mistake attacking Cruz as “Isolationist”. After all most 15 years of war, American voters are looking to elect someone who will make it their priority to be President of the USA 1st rather then focusing on playing “Emperor of Earth”.
If Cruz is upsetting the notcons that makes me like him a bit more.
If the Neo-cons control the next President, the USA is in war until we are weak and broke. What is needed is a President with the stature of Eisenhower who can talk to our enemies and convince them that we are not after their territory or oil or to rule the earth and make it the truth.
Notice that these folks are going after Sen. Cruz and not trump. They think they can get to be advisors to trump and leverage his proclivity for all things military. And his explicit willingness to acquire expertise in these matters by getting the “best generals” rather than taking the painstaking time to become expert himself.