No, Ted Cruz did not blame Donald Trump for #BrusselsAttacks

Trevor Loudon's New Zeal Blog ^ | 3-22-2016 | renee nal

[Citizen Zed]

In the wake of the attacks in Brussels, Ted Cruz said in part:

“Donald Trump is wrong that America should withdraw from the world and abandon our allies. Donald Trump is wrong that American should retreat from Europe, retreat from NATO, hand Putin a major victory and while he’s at it hand ISIS a major victory.”

Trumpsters, of course, took Cruz’s comments as a personal insult to Trump, saying that Cruz “blamed” Trump for the Islamic terror attack in Brussels.

Pro-Putin conspiracy theorists InfoWars posted a video quoting Cruz saying “It is striking that the day after Donald Trump called for weakening NATO, withdrawing from NATO, we see Brussels, where NATO is headquartered, the subject of a radical Islamic terror attack.”

The video left out the rest of Cruz’s quote stating that Trump is “wrong that American should retreat from Europe, retreat from NATO, hand Putin a major victory and while he’s at it hand ISIS a major victory.”

[ETL]

By labeling that stuff “spam” all you’re doing is revealing how dumb you are.

[jospehm20]

Fort Drum works very well for Winter training too and it is much cheaper.

[ETL]

Mr Putin, what do you think of your "useful idiot"
supporters on Free Republic?

____________________________

Useful idiots

Thomas Sowell
May 20, 2003

"The term 'useful idiots' has been attributed to Lenin, as a description of those mindless people in the Western democracies who would always find ways to excuse whatever the Soviet Union did. Columnist Mona Charen's new book Useful Idiots shows that such people are still with us.

Long after the Soviet Union's horrors had become too widely known around the world for their sympathizers in the West to be able to get away with whitewashing the USSR, new Communist dictatorships arose to become the new objects of the affections of the Western intelligentsia and of like-minded people in the media and in politics. ..."

http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2003/05/20/useful_idiots

[Las Vegas Ron]

Do you have a coherent argument to make or are you just going to deflect from what I posted?

Last I saw the discussion was the two incomparable statements you posted and how you conveniently omitted words to suite your lame argument/agenda.

And now you want to divert the discussion to something entirely different......

[Las Vegas Ron]

Post that to yourself, spam bot.

[BlackFemaleArmyColonel]

Get a life in JESUS CHRIST!

You can’t and won’t stop my posts.

LOL!

[Mom MD]

I think Trumps new moniker should be Bullyin Don...
I find it rich they accuse Cruz of lying when they twist every headline and run with it.

[Las Vegas Ron]

NO, it illustrates how stupid you are to think people actually read your lame copy paste shit.

[huldah1776]

I didn’t write the original article. I don’t have an agenda.

[Mr.Unique]

Stupid n00b troll posting inaccurate TDS crap.

It's accurate.

Unlike this tripe posted earlier:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3412310/posts

That thread contained this "quote"

He says “oh well isn’t it funny NATO HQ city was bombed and Trump yesterday said NATO expenses should be split more evenly, instead of US taxpayers shouldering all the financial burden.

I'm not sure where that author finished misquoting Cruz, because he never closed his quote.

[sargon]

No, Ted Cruz did not blame Donald Trump for #BrusselsAttacks

No, Ted Cruz simply accused Donald Trump of being an isolationist, which is equally absurd.

What an idiot. Ted Cruz never misses an opportunity to smear Donald Trump, no matter how disingenuous and patently ludicrous the smear may may be...

[V K Lee]

Never noticed before viewing the pic here. The man possess a very weak mouth. A comment of ‘Observation’ only

[huldah1776]

I was wondering what the population/GDP was for NATO but came across a government blog article that was hacked in parts but the good parts are still there...

“According to a number of analysts, including the last two U.S. Secretaries of Defense, America’s relations with its partners within the NATO alliance are nearing crisis. In June 2011, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates warned that NATO faces “a dim if not dismal future” and “irrelevance” as America’s allies remain “unwilling to devote the necessary resources or make the necessary changes to be serious and capable partners in their own defense.” The following October, Gates’ successor, Leon Panetta, stated that “we are at a critical moment for our defense partnership,” and he implored America’s allies to increase their defense spending to ensure that NATO remained “relevant.”

While irritation by American leaders toward their European allies over free riding and related calls for Europeans to increase their share of military spending are not new, European NATO countries’ defense expenditures—both relative to the United States and as a percentage of GDP—are at historically low proportions. For most of the Cold War, America accounted for 50 percent of total NATO military spending. That figure is 75 percent today. According to official NATO figures, only three of NATO’s 28 members—Britain (2.6), Greece (2.1), and the U.S. (4.8)—currently spend the agreed two percent of GDP on defense.

Low levels of defense spending are already having major effects on military effectiveness. In the 2011 campaign to topple Muammar Qaddafi’s government in Libya, the Europeans lacked the weaponry, as well as the reconnaissance, intelligence, heavy airlift, and refueling equipment necessary to defeat a minor power. As Gates put it, “the mightiest military alliance in history is only eleven weeks into an operation against a poorly armed regime in a sparsely populated country—yet many allies are beginning to run short of munitions, requiring the U.S., once more, to make up the difference.”

http://gt2030.com/2012/08/01/population-aging-and-the-future-of-nato/

Maybe DT IS listening to someone.

[Las Vegas Ron]

This is accurate? Trump never said this nor insinuated it:

“Donald Trump is wrong that America should withdraw from the world and abandon our allies. Donald Trump is wrong that American should retreat from Europe, retreat from NATO, hand Putin a major victory and while he’s at it hand ISIS a major victory.”

That, is what I was responding to.

[Las Vegas Ron]

WTF does that have to do with Trump stating they need to step up and do their part??

Are you freakin dense?

Do you even read what you post????

While irritation by American leaders toward their European allies over free riding and related calls for Europeans to increase their share of military spending are not new, European NATO countries’ defense expenditures—both relative to the United States and as a percentage of GDP—are at historically low proportions. For most of the Cold War, America accounted for 50 percent of total NATO military spending. That figure is 75 percent today.

Trump is saying the same freakin thing!!!!

[Mr.Unique]

That, is what I was responding to.

Then how about stating that instead of calling people stupid n00bs. eh?

[Las Vegas Ron]

Then how about stating that instead of calling people stupid n00bs. eh?

Well maybe if the n00b in question didn't call those who support Trump liars while posting an article that is a lie in it self, I could elevate it to dumbazz?

Maybe if the n00b in question didn't have a history of trolling, well, you get the point, eh?

[Mr.Unique]

I’ll defer to your obvious expertise in trolling.

[Las Vegas Ron]

Oooh, great comeback, You do know how to read a history, right?

[mrpotatohead]

Sorry buddy....your king (Trump) has no clothes. Neither does his wife apparently.....