Graham raps Boehner, GOP candidates on Libya, Afghanistan

McClatchy ^ | 2011-06-15 | James Rosen

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WASHINGTON — Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham criticized his party's presidential candidates and congressional leaders for increasingly advocating an international isolationism that he said repudiates the legacies of Presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush.

The South Carolina senator mocked seven GOP presidential candidates' discussion of foreign policy in Monday night's New Hampshire debate as "shallow" and full of "platitudes."

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"I was very disappointed that no one articulated why it matters if we win or lose in Afghanistan," Graham said. "No one articulated what would happen if (Libyan strongman Moammar) Gadhafi stays in power. So we have Republicans talking about stopping our efforts in Libya."

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Without naming him, Graham ridiculed GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain, former chief executive of the Godfather's Pizza chain, for having said in the debate Monday evening that he wouldn't allow a Muslim to serve in his Cabinet.

"Everybody is for making sure we vet Muslims in the Cabinet," Graham said. "That is the least of my concerns. My concern is: Will the Republican Party come to grips with what it takes to win the very long struggle with radical Islam?"

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"So we have Republicans talking about stopping our efforts in Libya."

"Our"???

FULG!!!

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fyi

[miliantnutcase]

Sorry Lindsey we’re burned out on spending money and lives on rebuilding foreign countries. Enough is enough.

[cotton1706]

Barry, please appoint him to something!! He’s an embarrassement as an elected official.

[livius]

Lindsey Graham is truly despicable, and I know from family in SC that the good people of SC are truly embarrassed by him. Nobody expected him to turn out like this. He’s awful, not only sucking up to Obama at every turn, but stabbing other Republicans in the back whenever he can.

[kingattax]

there is a ring and a string in this little puke's back that john mccain pulls. thats obvious.

besides that, little lindsey is still mad that weiner didn't send him any pics.

[headstamp 2]

Just one of a host of always dependable “Moderates” in the Republican party.

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Check this one out.

[ExcursionGuy84]

My response to Lindsey Graham,
in the manner of Yul Brenner in The King and I

"YOU, are very difficult woman!"

***no offense to all the genuine ladies of the USA***

[Servant of the Cross]

South Carolina! Would you recall this retarded goober? Please!

[fallujah-nuker]

Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham criticized his party's presidential candidates and congressional leaders for increasingly advocating an international isolationism...

In 1943 Garet Garrett wrote an article titled "The Mortification of History," he wrote about this very thing. Here is a short excerpt:<

...If you say of this history that its intense character has been nationalistic, consistently so from the beginning until now, that is true. Therefore, the word in place of isolationism that would make sense is nationalism. Why is the right word avoided?

The explanation must be for the wrong one, for that is what it is intended to do, it is the perfect political word. Since isolationism cannot be defined, those who attack it are not obliged to defend themselves. What are they? Anti-isolationists? But if you cannot say what isolationism is, neither can you say what anti-isolationism is, whereas nationalism, being definite, has a positive antithesis. One who attacks nationalism is an internationalist.

The use of the obscurity created by the false word is to conceal something. The thing to be concealed is the identity of what is speaking. Internationalism is speaking.

It has a right to speak, as itself and for itself, but that right entails a moral obligation to say what it means and to use true words...

[donozark]

Demote him from Colonel to Corporal. Transfer him from AF to Army. Give him a 70 pound ruck, M-16, basic load and let him walk up and down dusty mountains all day if he loves the ME so damned much!

After we go into Libya, what's next? Syria?

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After we go into Libya, what's next? Syria?

Yes.

Sen. Graham: Military intervention in Syria should be ‘on the table’

[org.whodat]

Gramesty, why do you not make it official, you are a damn democrat.

[nathanbedford]

If Graham wants us to wage war without end in four different countries at the same time he at least owes us an explanation of how "winning" in Afghanistan will prevent 19 crazed Islamists with box cutters from crashing the World Trade Center.

And if "winning" in Afghanistan will do it, how will we stop 19 coming from Libya? And if we can wage war and stop them in Libya, how will we stop them coming from Yemen? And if we can stop them from coming from Yemen, how will we stop them from coming out of the barrios of Iraq?

And, Sen. Graham, if we manage to dodge all the IED's in these lands, will we have to wage war from Casablanca to the nether reaches of China and occupy the whole of the Islamic world to stop these 19 terrorists?

Sen. Graham can you please explain how these wars are making us safer instead of just poorer and weaker and bereaved?

[tennmountainman]

Bonehead is a sorry leader of the House.
Sweet Lindsey is a sorry senator.

Good riddance to both.

[nickcarraway]

Warmonger

[mas cerveza por favor]

The swishing warmonger.

[stephenjohnbanker]

” besides that, little lindsey is still mad that weiner didn’t send him any pics. “

Are you sure?

[Eagle of Liberty]

There is a BIG DIFFERENCE between Isolationism and the respect we are shown by these asshats after we help them with our blood, our time and our money. We get ZERO respect, we get ZERO credit and then we have Iraq possibly suing US over $6 billion.

And now we have a CIC who doesn’t even think that he needs to consult Congress since “we are in a supporting role.” Well, gee, thanks for that clarification, Obama!!

FAIL!!