Ted Cruz: I'm Worried About 'Video Game Warfare'

Weekly Standard ^ | 11:47 AM, Dec 5, 2014 | DANIEL HALPER

[SoConPubbie]

At a Washington, D.C. event hosted by the Foreign Policy Initiative, Senator Ted Cruz defended the use of drones but also expressed some concern. "I'm worried about what I would call video game warfare," said Cruz in response to a question about drones.

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"Look, it is a great question and it's one of the realities of changing warfare--is drones have changed how combat is conducted, it's changed our capacity," said Cruz, responding to the question. "There are advantages to that and risks to that. Now, drones it seems to me, are a tool. They are a tool that clearly can have beneficial impacts, in particular allowing us to project force without risking U.S. soldiers. But there are dangers as well."

Cruz continued, "I am concerned a) domestically about the use of drones here at home and in particular we had fairly lively disagreements with the administration a year ago, asking the very simple question about whether a drone can use force against a U.S. citizen who doesn't pose an imminent threat here at home. And the administration repeatedly and to my mind inexplicably refused to acknowledge that the Constitution prevents the federal government from using a drone against a U.S. citizen at home if he or she doesn't pose an imminent threat. I think that's a real concern. There are civil liberties concerned to American citizens here at home and privacy concerns that trouble me.

"There are also concerns from the perspective of national security. No administration has used drones as aggressively as has the Obama administration. And I'm worried about what I would call videogame warfare."

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[SoConPubbie]

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[gaijin]

Cruz had to ask Holder FOUR times in Congress if Holder really thinks he can drone a US citizen sitting in a Starbucks inside of the USA:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEk1hxyw8D0

YouTube, 4 minutes

Watch how Holder won’t give a straight answer to the outrageous question.

He CLEARLY thinks he can blow your Frappacino-sipping a*s away.

[MaxMax]

Was this supposed to be a story about Cruz being against Video Games?

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Add me to the ping list please.

[Wolfie]

If some Moose-limb terrorist is running around the U.S. carrying out jihad, you’re damn right we should drone him to straight to Hell.

[SoConPubbie]

If some Moose-limb terrorist is running around the U.S. carrying out jihad, you’re damn right we should drone him to straight to Hell.

Your problem is that we have a Muslim loving Homo in the White-Hut and is not afraid to make up excuses to use it on conservatives as well, if he could find an emergency to blame it on.

[trebb]

He CLEARLY thinks he can blow your Frappacino-sipping a*s away.

And while ROE for military in foreign lands dictates that they try for zero collateral damage, Holder and Obama don't rightly give a flip if they cause even more damage.