Posted on 07/13/2014 10:12:41 PM PDT by South40
Gov. Rick Perry, R-Texas, came down firmly on the hawkish side of the Republican national security debate Saturday, saying "isolationist" figures like Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., are "blind" to the threat posed by terrorism.
"I can understand the emotions behind isolationism," Perry wrote in an op-ed for The Washington Post. "Many people are tired of war, and the urge to pull back is a natural, human reaction. Unfortunately, we live in a world where isolationist policies would only endanger our national security even further."
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As I said, if he has done what he SAID.
He didn’t. Perhaps this mess was his intent. Perhaps not. But had he done what he said, this mess would not exist. And America HAD the power to do it. He just caved in on the WILL.
Right you are. Sadly also, they men are both considered front runners for the GOP nomination.
If those two buffoons are being served at the Republican clown buffet in 2016, I’m ordering the lasagna.
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I wasn’t aware La Raza Rick sent the invaders home.
Nor was I. To my knowledge he has done little more than make the rounds on television and whine. I guess we should give him credit for sending the Texas guard to help process those entering this country ILLEGALLY. The Perry faithful will remind us if we don’t. But in reality, Perry has done little more than yap about it. In other words, he has been his usual worthless self.
I am an American and I like him. In fact, I was at a couple of speeches he gave in Baghdad during those years and thousands of Americans there appeared to like him. Don’t believe everything your read or hear in the MSM. He may not have been the best President ever but I still like him and so do many of the Americans I know. I was in Iraq for a few years. I saw the violence go from almost nothing, to very heavy and back to almost nothing after the surge. The truth is that we had the thing under control and Obama threw it away.
Worthless. Yup. That sums up La Raza Rick in a nutshell.
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That’s the way I see it as well
So Rick Perry wants to send US ground forces back to Iraq? Geeze, ...
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Perry did not say that. You’re almost as bad as the liberal media with that kind of spin.
Perry disagrees with Rand Paul’s idea that the US should become isolationist.
You said a lot there but did not say what the better way is to fight these people
No more American blood for people who won’t give their own to defend their own country.No more nation-building for those unwilling to do their own heavy lifting.
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Exactly! ...I’m not an isolasionist like the Pauls, but the US needs to stop trying to intervene in conflicts within or between other countries. We need to concentrate on protecting ourselves, because Obama has severely cut our military and border security.
I voted for him, but the so-called “compassionate conservative” Bush who pushed the “democracy building” meme and pushed for the “shamnesty” bill in ‘06-07 really helped to kick-start the major foreign policy and domestic security failures we are now experiencing.
Islam is isolationist, Mexico is Isolationist... Commercialist extremists in America better wake the frack up.
All the rino pubs are doing is encouraging the isolationism of. Mexicans, islam and intransigence of radical democrats.
This delusion is not going to end well.
This is like a jew being told he is isolationists with Nazis...
Good ideas..
First....Rick Perry...I would rather be an Isolationist and Protectionist for the USA than a Globalist and Communist...Perry is the latter
We have more problems with our Southern border than we do w Iraq and Middle East. Its time to be Pro-American and defend our borders
Rick Perry again all hat and no cattle....
You’re correct. The GOP and GWB let Dems determine how to run war
And, GW Bush lack commitment to win...many times he uttered “Islam is a religion of peace”
I doubt Patton, Eisenhower, were mumbling “Nazis are a party of peace” during WW II
Amen!!
What exactly is doofus attempting to prove by complaining about another doofus in the party? Doesn’t Perry have a boarder to manage?
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