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Cruz: No More Nation Building [VIDEO]
Daily Caller ^ | 10/18/2015 | Steve Guest

Posted on 10/18/2015 8:47:25 AM PDT by Isara

Ted Cruz says that in Afghanistan, “I don’t believe we should be engaged in nation building.”

Cruz, appearing on NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday, blasted Barack Obama’s Afghanistan decision, insisting, “It’s a recognition that what the President has been saying for years, that Al Qaeda is decimated was never true. That it was political spin.”

“The reality is we live in an incredibly dangerous world and sadly the failures of the Obama/Clinton foreign policy have made the dangers greater,” Cruz claimed.

Todd later asked Cruz, “If you become President though, you’re gonna keep this policy in place of keeping those troops there in Afghanistan?”

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“It will depend on the mission,” Cruz responded. “I don’t believe we should be engaged in nation building. I don’t believe we should be trying to transform foreign countries into democratic utopias, trying to turn Iraq into Switzerland. But I do think it is the job of our military to protect this country, to hunt down and kill jihadists who would murder us.”


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: New York; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 2016election; afghanistan; alqaeda; chucktodd; cruz; demagogicparty; election2016; meetthepress; memebuilding; military; nationbuilding; newyork; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; tcruz; tedcruz; texas; trump
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To: Lopeover

The plutocrats and oligarchs are interested in world control and profits, and exploit the military power of the US to achieve that. They also gamble with American sovereignty to further their goals.


21 posted on 10/18/2015 11:06:20 AM PDT by CMB_polarization
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Ted Cruz... appearing on NBC's "Meet the Press" Sunday, blasted Barack Obama's Afghanistan decision, insisting, "It's a recognition that what the President has been saying for years, that Al Qaeda is decimated was never true. That it was political spin. The reality is we live in an incredibly dangerous world and sadly the failures of the Obama/Clinton foreign policy have made the dangers greater... I don't believe we should be engaged in nation building. I don't believe we should be trying to transform foreign countries into democratic utopias, trying to turn Iraq into Switzerland. But I do think it is the job of our military to protect this country, to hunt down and kill jihadists who would murder us."
The problem is the same though -- destroying jihad means destroying Islam. The entire muzzie infrastructure needed to be removed in Afghanistan. As it stands now, it's a landlocked pseudostate that screws up neighboring states, including (a few miles of) China, the pseudostates of Pakistan and Iran, and three landlocked Central Asian former SSRs.


22 posted on 10/18/2015 11:07:51 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: 2nd Amendment; 2ndDivisionVet; alstewartfan; altura; aposiopetic; AUTiger83; arderkrag; anymouse; ..
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23 posted on 10/18/2015 11:08:26 AM PDT by erod (Chicago Conservative | Cruz or Lose!)
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To: SunkenCiv

Yep, and thank you.

It gets rather demoralizing when having to deal with thumb-sucking, intellectually inbred, mouth-breeding snot-gobblers who can not get it through their idiot heads that for so long as there is islam, there will be jihad for islam is jihad. Islam demands jihad. And no, it’s not that kind, gentle, peaceful jihad on the self that the taqqyia blatherers use to keep the spineless, knee-crawling Cult of Cowardice devotees in check.

The jihadiscum mean to kill or enslave all who aren’t islam.
Moderate muslims mean to wait until the jihadiscum have gotten the job done before they go slave shopping.


24 posted on 10/18/2015 11:17:04 AM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: Alberta's Child

The problem is that Obola screwed things up in Afghanistan so walking away suddenly would make things even worse.

It isn’t right that America should be shouldering this burden alone though.


25 posted on 10/18/2015 11:28:36 AM PDT by GulliverSwift
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To: Isara

This is the same thing W said while running in 1999 and 2000. That was before he got a chance to try the nation building thing in Afghanistan and Iraq.


26 posted on 10/18/2015 11:41:14 AM PDT by jospehm20
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To: GulliverSwift
I'm not sure what exactly "the burden" is.

The U.S. effort in Afghanistan was a disaster from the start. There's no way a modern nation can maintain a long-term occupation in a place where a disproportionate number of the people who live there have a Stone Age mentality.

27 posted on 10/18/2015 12:06:56 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("It doesn't work for me. I gotta have more cowbell!")
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To: KC_Lion

Total war followed by total occupation.

These days we aren’t willing to do either so our only real option is to drop the nation building crap.


28 posted on 10/18/2015 12:09:22 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.)
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To: CMB_polarization
Jordan is an example of a fairly stable Islamic country. What have they done right?

1. Their royal family doesn't have any delusional utopian ideas about what "democracy" is all about.

2. They have kept their British ties strong.

3. They don't take sides in regional disputes, even if they have to pay a price in the short term (see their refusal to join the U.S.-led coalition in Desert Storm back in 1990 as a case in point).

4. They are a "beggar nation" to a large degree, which means a lot of countries have a financial stake in seeing them succeed. Their economy would collapse without billions of dollars in foreign aid.

29 posted on 10/18/2015 12:12:34 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("It doesn't work for me. I gotta have more cowbell!")
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To: Alberta's Child

Good thing Cruz isn’t one of them. As far as I can tell he’s the only candidate with enough balls to call out Boehner and McConnell and the rest of the Washington Cartel. the rest of the candidates just want to go along to get along or donate money to them to “get things done”.

One thing I can’t stand is we have Trump out there talking about how “ militaristic “ he is. News flash! We don’t want a militaristic president who send our troops everywhere. No more nation building, please! Cruz gets it. Not sure anyone else does yet...


30 posted on 10/18/2015 12:24:50 PM PDT by conservativegamer
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To: Alberta's Child
It's good to hear this from Ted Cruz, but history tells us never to trust these inside-the-Beltway pr!cks.

And that means any of them.

Go by their deeds not their words. Ted Cruz has done exactly what he said he'd do if he was elected to the US Senate, often at great cost to himself. There is no stranger cash conservative on Capitol Hill than Cruz.
Trump? Since far it's mere words. He hasn't done sh*t. Anyone can promise to do anything. Thing is he has at one time or the other supported abortion, Obamacare, gay marriage and even Obama himself. What will be his positions on these issues if he gets elected? His past record is not so good.

31 posted on 10/18/2015 2:38:54 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: Isara

In order to ‘nation build’ you have to start with at least raw materials. These cou tries, frankly, don’t have it. Start teaching Locke, Adams, Jefferson and the rest in their schools for a generation, and you might be able to come up with a start of it. What we’ve been doing for the last 50 years will simply not work. The people have to want property rights and liberty of their own free will. You can’t just ‘establish’ the institutions of justice and freedoms without fertile ground.


32 posted on 10/18/2015 3:07:54 PM PDT by zeugma (Zaphod Beeblebrox for president! Or Cruz if Zaphod is unavailable.)
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To: Read Write Repeat

Those countries were something before the war and none were Muslim.


33 posted on 10/18/2015 4:59:00 PM PDT by stellaluna
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To: Alberta's Child

I’m just afraid that Afghanistan will become even worse after we pull out like what happened in Iraq.


34 posted on 10/18/2015 5:06:52 PM PDT by GulliverSwift
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To: Isara

This is actually a good interview and demonstrates why Cruz should be our nominee.

Sorry Trumpsters, but the contrast is striking.


35 posted on 10/19/2015 7:28:45 AM PDT by almcbean
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To: Alberta's Child

Jordan from what I hear is a reasonable vacation destination, and the islamists have not taken hold there. They have their monarchy and that will work for awhile.


36 posted on 10/20/2015 6:27:22 PM PDT by CMB_polarization
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