Posted on 05/27/2015 9:09:40 AM PDT by GIdget2004
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) said Wednesday that Sen. Rand Paul’s (R-Ky.) belief that Republicans are partially responsible for the emergence of Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorists should disqualify him from being president.
“This is a perfect example of why Senator Paul is unsuited to be Commander-in-Chief,” Jindal said in a statement. “We have men and women in the military who are in the field trying to fight ISIS right now, and Senator Paul is taking the weakest, most liberal Democrat position.”
“It's one thing for Senator Paul to take an outlandish position as a Senator at Washington cocktail parties, but being Commander-in-Chief is an entirely different job,” he continued. “We should all be clear that evil and Radical Islam are at fault for the rise of ISIS, and people like President Obama and Hillary Clinton exacerbate it.”
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If one thing which has been proven it is ignoring what is going on in the world and maybe that is what Jindal is talking about.
The isolationism which Paul wants is dangerous.
If Jindal takes out Paul early that would be ok by me. I like all the conservatives, but we need to winnow the field fast.
And so the circular firing squad begins ...
AFAIC, hussein and clinton are enemy islamists themselves.
That’s not the way to take anyone out.....
And he’s got a really bad haircut.
Republicans are not responsible for ISIS, Bambi (and the Iranian broad that pulls his strings), Biden and Hitlery are.
Moral clarity.
I wish they would all remember Reagan’s “11th commandment”
Thou shalt not speak ill of another Republican
So far Ted Cruz is the only gracious one
Sorry it happened, but Paul brought it onto him. I mean seriously? What was he thinking? And if he truly believes that, then Jindal is absolutely right.
They'll snipe at each other and avoid angering the front-runners.
Looks like Bobby Jindal is aligning himself with the McLame/Lindsay Graham wing of the GOP. He should keep better company.
Jindal is correct, Paul is wrong.
Paul needs to drop out.
Playing nice with other Rs just because they are Rs is not what I want. That is not Conservative leadership.
So the power vacuum created by the ouster of Saddam without a clear long term plan for regional security and subsequent Arab Spring (Summer, Winter, endless season of anarchy) was not a partial cause of the formation of ISIL? Jindal is not too bright if he believes that, and he won’t find a single strategic security analyst in any of the three letter agencies to support this view— King Bammy’s actions are reprehensible, but to deny any accountability to our own is dishonest.
11th Commandment notwithstanding.
If Paul did say that “Republicans are partially responsible for the emergence of Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS)”
then yeah. He should take some heat for that.
isolationism is what has caused this , and that is what Paul is along with a reduced military and this is what Jindal is pointing out.
Paul is not even a conservative, hell he’s not even a republican but in name only. He is a liberaltarian and should run in his own party instead of telling us what we should go along with. That was the same for his nutbag father too
It’s true that we should have had a much better post-Saddam plan. But Iraq was quite stable when Bush left office and ISIS didn’t exist. ISIS percolated after the Arab Spring... and they started in Syria and moved into Iraq. Tracing their creation directly back to Bush is a bit unteneable. There is a chain of events but that isn’t the same thing as direct responsibility.
That sounds petty, unproductive and unpresidential.
It it’s not up to Gov. Jindal to tell us voters who is unsuitable.
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