Posted on 09/08/2015 9:20:07 PM PDT by Isara
Radical Islamic terrorism is tearing communities apart from Libya to Iraq and Syria
HOUSTON, Texas — Today, U.S. Sen. Cruz, R-Texas, released the following statement regarding the migrant crisis caused by radical Islamic terrorism in Northern Africa and the Middle East:
“The migrant crisis from the Middle East and North Africa demands our urgent attention. The United States has a long history of response to humanitarian disasters and this should be no exception. Our immediate role should be to support our regional allies who are on the front lines through public and private assistance to the international organizations who are best poised to administer aid.
“In terms of settling the migrants, if the ultimate goal is to return them to their homes, which I believe it should be, it doesn’t make sense from a logistical or a security standpoint to move large numbers of them to far-off countries like the United States.
“Ultimately, we need to address the cause of this crisis or we will just have more and more migrants displaced.
“Bad actors like Turkey’s Erdogan and Russia’s Putin, both of whom have contributed tangentially to this crisis, announced this week that the West is to blame. This is disingenuous at best. The blame should be laid squarely at the door of the vicious, radical Islamism that is tearing communities apart from Libya to Syria and Iraq, creating the terrible circumstances that are causing the migrants to flee their homes. The failure of the United States has been an unwillingness to name and confront this threat.
“The regime in Tehran and their proxies may be Shiite and ISIS and its affiliates Sunni, but they are the cause of this problem. They are branches of the same poisonous tree – radical Islamism. Until we recognize the threat from this savage, twisted totalitarian ideology and develop a coherent strategy to combat it, we will at best be putting a Band-Aid onto a life-threatening wound.”
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Cruz sets up for the prosecuter Trump.
This a set up for the rally.
The two are going to tag team this issue.
Hardly. Trump has already gone wobbly on the issue.
I pray for a President Cruz.
Surrender in Iraq. Surrender in Afghanistan. Overthrow of Qaddaffi and destabilsation of Libya, overthrow of Mubarak and destabilization of Egypt. Arming and funding al queda and isis, I could go on...
Cruz gets it. Trump is a useful blowhard and the type of guy you want in your corner because he is a fighter but when it comes to actually understanding policy Cruz is the man.
Arab Spring!
Root cause, Ted? Lack of 2A…
“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.” - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Need more root cause, Ted? Look at POSOTUS, Hillaryous, Johnny McInsane, etc., etc.
43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.
http://www.uhuh.com/nwo/communism/comgoals.htm
Best response I’ve heard yet.
bttt
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