[Isara]

FYI

[Parley Baer]

So did McQuegg.

[stocksthatgoup]

McCain and Lindsey Grahm - Chicken Hawks

[WENDLE]

Not me. I could care less. Let the big dog eat ( Russia). Here is what I want to do. CLOSE THE DAMNED BORDERS!! Get control of the Wahhabi sect Sunnis in this country. STOP THE TROJAN HORSE OF SYRIAN REFUGEES!! You are gambling this lives of our American Christian Children!! You absolutely will not do this!!

[dp0622]

we wont arm the kurds heavily because of Turkey.

worried about Russia killing the “good” rebels.

priorities are askew

[right way right]

We have a war here, Cruz just can’t say it.
He’ll probably wait until Trump says it first.

[sickoflibs]

RE:”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.”

They learned nothing from Iraq.

Don't forget Grahamnesty and McCain.

No one likes foreign invaders who bring their alien cultures with them, especially when they invade armed.

Least of all those stone age Islamists

I been preaching this here since late 2008.

[cripplecreek]

He ain’t wrong.

[Presbyterian Reporter]

Cruz knows how to give a Presidential response to a messy situation.

Unlike Obama and some RINO Republican Presidential Candidates who do not have the skills to fully understand the ramifications of going in or staying out.

[moehoward]

He’s right.

[FlingWingFlyer]

This is the first time I’ve ever seen a “JV” team beat somebody so bad that they turned them into “three year old refugees” and ran them out of their own country.

[editor-surveyor]

Ping!

[dp0622]

Plus Cruz is wrong about obummer, i think.

for the wrong reasons. we cant be leading the world, he says.

he is giving way too many weapons to folks that are aligned with jihad.

He only helped the kurds because of national pressure that time in Kobani.

Leave our troops home, arm the kurds heavily, to hell with muslim Turkey

[cdcdawg]

‘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.’

I like that Cruz is tackling Obama on this issue, and that he sees the absurdity of intervening in Syria. Assad has forcefully put down uprisings against his rule. That’s true. It was also true of many rulers. What faction in Syria is preferable to Assad? Is there some People’s Front of Judea/Judean People’s Front/Judean Popular People’s Front group of “moderate rebels” that we think can ring in democracy like we did in Iraq? Iraq, Libya, Egypt ... It’s almost like they don’t share our values or something. Strongmen rule there, and secular is better for our interests than Muslim nutjobs (see Iran, Shah, and some idiot named Jimmy Carter).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb_qHP7VaZE

[The_Media_never_lie]

"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."

Absolutely true.

If there is one thing we have learned from Iraq, it is that we did not learn one thing from Iraq.

[Isara]

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[Candor7]

The Cruz is right.

Without a clear result or plan of who will control Syria and Lebanon, why put boots on the ground. Will the USA control Syria and install a democratically elected leader?

Maybe we should wait.

But ISIS needs to be destroyed.

[The Toll]

Assad is all they can talk about because their Saudi masters demand it. Americans couldn’t care less about beheading all the Alewites.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

I agree with him.

[dead]

Syria’s civil war is irrelevant. Destroy ISIS and the other caliphate builders.

[ETL]

Ted Cruz on ISIS, Russia, Obama, missile defense, and the New START Treaty with Russia...

"If we want to actually dismantle ISIS, we need to dramatically change course. We need a real, robust campaign that maximizes our overwhelming air advantage.

We need to focus our efforts not on trying to create friends, but on supporting our real ones, especially the Kurds in Iraq and Syria who have actually had success against ISIS."

-snip-

"We can redouble our efforts to develop the defensive weapons that neutralized the offensive Soviet threat -- particularly missile defense, which has seen a 25% budget reduction under Obama, according to an analysis from the conservative Heritage Foundation, and has been constrained by bad arms deals like New START.

We should not only move quickly to install the canceled interceptor sites Putin opposed in Poland and the Czech Republic, but also to develop the next generation of systems that will only increase his discomfiture.

These options do not entail a ground war in Syria, yet would effectively shake us free from the failed policies that have brought us to our current impasse.

These options set us on a new path that puts Putin on notice that the United States is reclaiming our traditional role as leader of the free world."

http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/09/opinions/cruz-syria-putin/index.html

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"I think it would be a mistake to get involved in the Syrian civil war. There have been voices in Washington eager for us to send our sons and daughters over to fight that civil war for some time. I haven't been one of them. I think the touchstone of U.S. military policy should be protecting the national security of this country."

"What we're seeing Putin in Russia do is a direct response to the profound weakness of Obama over six and a half years.

Putin views Obama as weak, as ineffective, and frankly, as a laughingstock. And, as a result, he is moving in, he is invading his neighbors, like Ukraine, he's kidnapping Estonians, and he's moving into Syria to gain a stronger foothold in the Middle East."

https://www.tedcruz.org/news/icymi-cruz-we-have-no-business-getting-in-the-middle-of-the-syrian-civil-war-goal-should-be-to-defeat-isis/

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Ted Cruz:
"We need a coherent plan to address both the specific crisis in Syria and the challenge posed more broadly by Putin's resurgent Russia.

The good news is that America still has options, if our leaders can summon the will to exercise them.

For starters, in Syria we can't double down on the failed strategies that have given Putin his opportunity to intervene.

We are now two years out from President Obama's proposed intervention after al-Assad used chemical weapons against his own people. ..."

http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/09/opinions/cruz-syria-putin/index.html