Conservative Review - Presidential Candidates Comparison - as of 11-18-15
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.
Why do that? They could have just recalled and replaced him.
Jim, I was surfing he channels last night and happened to have seen Bernie Goldberg on O’Reilly so I thought I’d listen. He said he was going to give credit where credit is due to Chris Matthews who said take all the men of fighting age and send them back to fight the war for their country. I must say, I had to agree.
Rain death from above if need be, but no more Americans coming home in body bags or missing arms.
Graham talking about it during the last debate he was allowed in made me genuinely think that he’s friggin nuts. Maybe it’s the only way the little fairy can feel like a man.
Tell the Russians that ? do what they need to do in Syria and we will deal with Isis in our own way and own time.
Tell Putin Assad is your buddie and we understand that, so he is yours so we will go after the true state of terrorism Iran.
so Russia ? Say your good byes to Iran.
The US will form a plan, take out Iran’s nuke sites while at the same time join us in taking out the garbage.
Go in fast, do the job successfully then get out.
ISIS is in Bosnia, Kosovo and Albania and multiplying.
They are spreading like a cancer
We can look forward to decades of fighting Muslims.
The irony that GWB misled us on, and Grahmanesty and McCain still push, is that they claim we can still invade countries without a clue as to what do next.
And that we are better off with total anarchy in these Muslim countries than the brutal dictators that came before them that may be difficult to deal with, but they keep the nutbags down.
Syria is not Germany
More like marauding terrorist.
Wandering the world to spread their evil to what ever country they seem fit.
I would give them 24 hour notice that the big nations have joined forces and their holy sight Mecca is going to see Cruz missiles headed it’s way.... Hit them where it really hurts and matters.
Well then, a call to arms, send Cruz missles to Mecca.
Just the Republicans who are working for their King in the House of Saud.
Benedict Arnold WAS a hero many times over in the heat of face to face battle before he let his vanity and libido get in the way of his commitment to duty. Like I said, he WAS a hero before he became a traitor.
McCain is essentially the same to me, but he was not exceptional in any way but being born into his lot in life and coddled all the way through it. The big difference is that he does his treachery in the name of this country and on our dime.
Who says it has to be our boots? Did he say it has to be our boots?
Let Russia handle it...
Go after what they treasure the most , hurt them bad and send a message, send a few cruz missiles into Mecca.
Wisdom. Creating power vacuums in the middle east is not in our best interests.
“The irony that GWB misled us on, and Grahmanesty and McCain still push, is that they claim we can still invade countries without a clue as to what do next.”
Bush did untold damage to this country, then Obama is finishing the job.
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Removing him from his post would not have silenced his tongue.
He fell into the same trap as Vince Foster, and Ron Brown.
This is why the Marines had to die with him too.
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You babble nonsense.
Stevens was a nutcase pacifist all of his life.
I’ve sat through several of his talks at the church my in-laws attended, and I’ve never encountered such a mind-numbed peacenik robot in my life.
His appointment was a political pay-off to the DOC, and Friends Society for bringing in the votes. He was scheduled to speak at a large pre-election gathering just a week after he was assassinated.
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