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.
Ever entertain the hypothesis that Stevens might be a hypocrite TOO? Just sayin’, Sir Know It All.
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Stevens was a bomb that was about to sink the entire democrat ship in 2012, but seemed oblivious of the fragile nature of his existence.
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Well fine... what I was talking about was that it seemed you were accusing someone of babble for suggesting a lefty might be even leftier than you had imagined.
Fragility, in a satanic context, is sometimes only a feint.
(And also thus, sometimes, is pacifism.)
Frankly, I thought Stevens and his whole family were too stupid to carry out much of a plan.
They never did seem to “get it.” (and they thought that they had the inside secrets that would save the world)
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P.S. I think he had threatened “the one.”
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