Posted on 11/18/2015 7:17:28 PM PST by 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.
Assad is all they can talk about because their Saudi masters demand it. Americans couldn’t care less about beheading all the Alewites.
yep. the five most expensively trained men in the history of the world. and they gave their weapons to ISIS
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Read your Bible; it is a written program for what is happening. WE don’t need to get rolled over by a Rock of Offense.
I agree with him.
I say there, I think those rebels were a number of five left, in Syria, according to that congressional hearing testimony several weeks back.
Remember, it was a half a million per man went to train these “good rebels” and the general said there were 5 left. Pathetic, huh? The others were already killed by ASSAD, or left the country. They are “refugees” no doubt, by now.
We have made it worse, not better. Let’s let Russia have their turn.
Syria’s civil war is irrelevant. Destroy ISIS and the other caliphate builders.
Trump plan might work but Turkey will be a problem (as usual). The Turks will not allow an autonomous Kurdish region on their border. Turkey feels that would encourage Turkish Kurds to revolt in a effort to join with Iraqi Kurds.
THAT is the only decent answer. Trump said it again tonight. We can build them a safe zone IN Syria. It is so simple and obvious that everyone is saying it, on both sides.
Not even a rocket scientist had to think of it. Let Saudia Arabia pay for it. :)
"If we want to actually dismantle ISIS, we need to dramatically change course. We need a real, robust campaign that maximizes our overwhelming air advantage.
We need to focus our efforts not on trying to create friends, but on supporting our real ones, especially the Kurds in Iraq and Syria who have actually had success against ISIS."
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"We can redouble our efforts to develop the defensive weapons that neutralized the offensive Soviet threat -- particularly missile defense, which has seen a 25% budget reduction under Obama, according to an analysis from the conservative Heritage Foundation, and has been constrained by bad arms deals like New START.
We should not only move quickly to install the canceled interceptor sites Putin opposed in Poland and the Czech Republic, but also to develop the next generation of systems that will only increase his discomfiture.
These options do not entail a ground war in Syria, yet would effectively shake us free from the failed policies that have brought us to our current impasse.
These options set us on a new path that puts Putin on notice that the United States is reclaiming our traditional role as leader of the free world."
http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/09/opinions/cruz-syria-putin/index.html
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"I think it would be a mistake to get involved in the Syrian civil war. There have been voices in Washington eager for us to send our sons and daughters over to fight that civil war for some time. I haven't been one of them. I think the touchstone of U.S. military policy should be protecting the national security of this country."
"What we're seeing Putin in Russia do is a direct response to the profound weakness of Obama over six and a half years.
Putin views Obama as weak, as ineffective, and frankly, as a laughingstock. And, as a result, he is moving in, he is invading his neighbors, like Ukraine, he's kidnapping Estonians, and he's moving into Syria to gain a stronger foothold in the Middle East."
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Ted Cruz:
"We need a coherent plan to address both the specific crisis in Syria and the challenge posed more broadly by Putin's resurgent Russia.
The good news is that America still has options, if our leaders can summon the will to exercise them.
For starters, in Syria we can't double down on the failed strategies that have given Putin his opportunity to intervene.
We are now two years out from President Obama's proposed intervention after al-Assad used chemical weapons against his own people. ..."
http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/09/opinions/cruz-syria-putin/index.html
Thank you. Real policy ideas unlike the brain eating Trump virus.
I will read that. But, meanwhile my border is being breached and it’s from over there they are coming. I expect something to be done about it, from over here.
Waving a copy of Psalms 83 at the enemy I’m quite willing to do, but it better work, or we rumble. :)
“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.”
LOL! Stumbled onto it? He was the organizer of it!
Why would a million non-Syrians agree to go to a Syrian safe zone?
The one with a brain eating virus is you.
“So lets just let russia have the mideast?”
Yeah,,, that’s American and Saudi turf! The Russians have been in Syria since about 1970 in a big way.
I was going to point that out, but some people are to stubborn to listen to facts.
"I think that I would probably get along with him [Putin] very well."
--Donald Trump, CBS' Face The Nation, Oct 2015
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Donald Trump slammed President Obama Thursday on TODAY for failing to take a stronger line against President Vladimir Putin in dealing with Ukraine, saying he feared Obama would now make up for lost time with imprudent moves to "show his manhood."
The real estate mogul and reality-TV star, who has criticized Putin for sending military troops into Crimea, said Obama must now take fierce steps to prevent the situation from escalating further.
"We should definitely do sanctions and we have to show some strengths. I mean, Putin has eaten Obama's lunch, therefore our lunch, for a long period of time," Trump said. ..."
http://www.today.com/news/donald-trump-putin-has-eaten-obamas-lunch-ukraine-2D79372098
Tilting at windmills I guess,,
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