Posted on 11/14/2015 12:08:02 PM PST by Isara
Ted Cruz led Republican criticism of Obama administration policy on Syria on Saturday, in light of the devastating terror attacks in Paris.
"President Obama and Hillary Clinton's idea that we should bring tens of thousands of Syrian Muslim refugees to America: it is nothing less than lunacy," the Texas senator said, in an interview with Fox News.
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Speaking to reporters ahead of a "rally for religious liberty" in Greenville, South Carolina, Cruz said of the victims of the Paris attacks: "They were not injured by some faceless menace. They were not injured by some abstract and inchoate violent extremism.
"They were injured by radical Islamic terrorism, an evil that is at war with the people of America, that is at war with freedom-loving people across the globe."
..."We need a commander-in-chief willing to utter the words 'radical Islamic terrorism' because it is the Islamists who embrace this extreme political and theological philosophy that ... will murder or try to forcibly convert anyone that doesn't share their extreme view of Islam."
..."I call on Congress to pass the Expatriate Terrorist Act, legislation I've introduced that says that any American who goes and takes up arms and joins Isis to wage jihad against the United States of America, that by doing so they forfeit their American citizenship.
"We should not allow jihadists to come back to America using US passports to murder innocent men and women."
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..."What is the answer to radical Islamic terrorism? It is, to paraphrase President Ronald Reagan with regard to the Cold War, very simple. We win, they lose. That is the only appropriate resolution to this."
..."It would start with a commander-in-chief laying out the objective that we will utterly destroy Isis. The next thing that would happen would be using overwhelming air power...
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(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
After yesterdays attack in Paris, we should admit we were wrong to let these 10,000 guys into New Orleans, and instead, return them back on a boat to Syria immediately. If we did that, I am sure we would all cheer.
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