Warning From Ted Cruz: ‘Far Too Many’ Republicans Are Eager to Drag US Into Syria’s Civil War

The Blaze ^ | Nov. 18, 2015 | Leigh Munsil

[Isara]

Putting U.S. troops on the ground in Syria to counter the Islamic State and take on Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime would be a mistake, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said Wednesday.

"I don't believe the answer is sending boots on the ground to Syria," the Republican candidate for president told reporters in Washington. "President Obama - and I think far too many Republicans - are eager to get us in the middle of an internecine civil war in Syria. We don't have a dog in that fight."

Assad is a "monster" who has murdered women and children and gassed his own citizens, Cruz said, but handing the country over to warring extremist factions would be worse.

"The enemy of my enemy is not necessarily my friend," he said. "And toppling Assad, if it results in radical Islamic terrorists taking over Syria, if it results in Al Qaeda or Al Nusra or ISIS taking over all of Syria, that would be a catastrophic mistake."

Some Republican candidates, including Ohio Gov. John Kasich and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, have said they would support putting U.S. boots on the ground in Syria.

[WENDLE]

WELL SAID. GO TRUMP!!

[brothers4thID]

Trump came out recently with a plan to build a “safe zone” in Syria. http://www.breitbart.com/video/2015/11/17/trump-i-will-build-a-big-beautiful-safe-zone-in-syria-for-refugees/

How the devil we do that without boots on the ground is mind-boggling. That he said this right after decrying the idea of a “no fly zone” is equally confusing.

[gaijin]

when our leaders spend huge sums and quickly pass new War on Terror laws with breathtaking implications, that’s very, very noteworthy.

But when they do so while also not taking even THE BARE MINIMUM effort to control the southern border...

THEN IT IS EXTREMELY *SUSPICIOUS*.

Then the Prez begins admonishing his total resolution to CONTROL GUNS.

Do we see the planets starting to align, here?

[Sasparilla]

Just follow Trump’s advice. Like he said, “Bomb the Shiite out of them.” The US bombed the Nazis in the daytime, and England bombed the Nazis at night. 24/7/365. No rest for the Satanic evil. Do the same to the Islamic savages. We have the capability, but Obama lacks the will. I’ll bet the French would do one or the other. Only the American people would like to see the savages destroyed.

[cripplecreek]

Leave our troops home, arm the kurds heavily, to hell with muslim Turkey

Basically what Cruz has said all along.

[editor-surveyor]

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>> “We have a war here, Cruz just can’t say it.” <<

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No, we don’t have a war, and Cruz is the only one sufficiently cognizant of the situation to keep us out of it.

What we are seeing is the beginning of the Psalm 83 war that will extinguish Islam from the face of the Earth.

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[The_Media_never_lie]

"The enemy of my enemy is not necessarily my friend," he said. "And toppling Assad, if it results in radical Islamic terrorists taking over Syria, if it results in Al Qaeda or Al Nusra or ISIS taking over all of Syria, that would be a catastrophic mistake."

Absolutely true.

If there is one thing we have learned from Iraq, it is that we did not learn one thing from Iraq.

[Jim Robinson]

Maybe he’s suggesting someone set up a safe zone in Syria, but not necessarily us? Oh, I know. The UN!! Woo hoo!!

Personally, I’d like to see the able bodied men and women refugees of military age (and that appears to be most of them) returned to do their own fighting.

[Isara]

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[Candor7]

The Cruz is right.

Without a clear result or plan of who will control Syria and Lebanon, why put boots on the ground. Will the USA control Syria and install a democratically elected leader?

Maybe we should wait.

But ISIS needs to be destroyed.

[Zhang Fei]

How the devil we do that without boots on the ground is mind-boggling. That he said this right after decrying the idea of a “no fly zone” is equally confusing.

Arm Assad or the Kurds.

[cripplecreek]

And he’s smart enough to understand that we still need to provide some opposition to Russia. We don’t need to go to war with them but we don’t need them in sole control of the region. After all, they’re still arming Iran.

[RitaOK]

65% Americans are ready to rumble, according to a Chuck Todd poll TODAY, on his MTP program.

That doesn’t have to mean we go in with battalions, but it means enough to open up the spigot on intelligence and embed with allies to an extent that the muscle is noteworthy.

[editor-surveyor]

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>> “I have no idea who these so-called rebels are.” <<

They are the Syrian “insurgency” that obama has created to weaken Syria and allow ISIS to take over.

This is what Bengazi was all about. Stevens stumbled onto Obama’s operations in Libya and got really steamed about it. Stevens was a total pacifist from the SF Bay Area SNCC bunch in Oakland.

Obama and Clinton engineered Stevens’ assassination at Bengazi.
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[cripplecreek]

What he has said is that we need to give the Kurds the weapons they need rather than blankets and small arms. Train them to make them more effective.

[editor-surveyor]

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Wake up!

We’re arming Iran.
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[RitaOK]

I SOO agree with you. Obviously, this is WW III. Nobody but announce it. France is trying to ring the bell among the jelly spined allies.

[RitaOK]

The good rebels I think turned out to be five! Obama is a fool. The rebels are refugees now.

[cripplecreek]

So lets just let russia have the mideast?

[editor-surveyor]

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No, read your Bible.

This is the buildup to the Psalm 83 war, and we have no business getting into it. Prophecy says whoever does will be crushed by it.