Posted on 12/05/2015 4:15:45 PM PST by WilliamIII
This side of the father-and-son isolationist firm Ron Paul & Son, it's unheard of for a conservative Republican to attack neoconservatives by name. But that is exactly what Texas Sen. and rising presidential candidate Ted Cruz is doing. And he might be tapping into a philosophy of national security reflecting the preference of most Americans. In a Bloomberg interview over the weekend, Cruz accused his rival for the GOP nomination, Marco Rubio, of "military adventurism," even linking him to Hillary Clinton. "Senator Rubio emphatically supported Hillary Clinton in toppling (Moammar) Gadhafi in Libya. I think that made no sense," Cruz said, pointing out that Gadhafi "had become a significant ally in fighting radical Islamic terrorism" and that the Benghazi attack "was a direct result of that massive foreign policy blunder."
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The supposed third way made famous during Bill C. administration was merely branding and PR. The thrid way has never existed or has always existed ... depending on your point of view.
Vs the neocon way of Any war any time, we got blood and money to burn, we’ll worry about our national interests later.
Neither isolationism; nor interventionism, but America and Western Civilization’s interests. That should be our foreign policy.
I think Cruz has it just right.
No nation building, with American taxpayers footing the bill. No meddling in every middle eastern hellhole. When it is necessary to strike, strike overwhelmingly and get out quickly. No PC with the islamists. If an attack was instigated or planned in a mosque, flatten the mosque, preferably with all the imams inside.
Well said.
My objection to Obama’s actions in Libya and Egypt wasn’t that they were interventions, but that they were interventions on the wrong side. I think that is what Sen. Cruz is getting at here.
The RINO pundits on twitter are going nuts over the fact that Cruz does not want us to get rid of Assad in favor of the “Moderate Rebels.”
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Hmmmm
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Its a term the MSM use to marginalize conservatives.
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This is the GOP establishment will be supporting Hillary Clinton if Cruz or Trump wins the Republican nomination. Those @ssholes are big-government globalists who have never had America’s interests in the forefront of their political ideology.
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Zackley!
It's not as easily done as it is said, but it's the right approach.
Exactly.
Choose our wars and our allies wisely.
I know he has spoken about giving the Kurds the weapons they need rather than the blankets and light arms we’ve been giving them. We should also train them for calling in effective airstrikes.
He also understands that destroying weapons and infrastructure isn’t going to defeat ISIS. You’ve got to exterminate ISIS.
The Syrian problem will be nothing but a mine field in which I fear there are no good options, only less awful ones. It’s part of the reason having a president who has firm, conservative, pro-American principles is so important. There are going to be decisions that will have to be made where there will be plenty of room for questioning. Without a firm foundation, it would be easy for a president to be swayed by less than virtuous motivations.
Yeah and vague claims about how great our victory will be don’t really leave me with a lot of confidence.
Its why I prefer Cruz, I know he’s thinking about it every day.
Me, either.
quite the opposite. I find the Progressives, their predecessors the Liberals, their predecessors the Democrats seem to be perfectly willing to sacrifice or ‘mortgage’ our countries National Security and invoke National Absurdity for short term political gains against the Conservatives. They’re doing it right now with Muslim Terrorists. It’s not just Obama. He’s getting cover from the minority Senate and the Minority house leaders.
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