Ted Cruz Stakes Out Bold Foreign Policy Vision to Rand Paul's Right

Breitbart ^ | 6 Mar 2014 | Tony Lee

[SoConPubbie]

In what may have been his most significant foreign policy speech to date, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on Thursday positioned his Reaganesque foreign policy views between the hawkish Sen. John McCain's (R-AZ) and what he described as the dovish Sen. Rand Paul's (R-KY), while blasting President Barack Obama as a fool on the international stage.

Speaking at the second annual Uninvited II national security forum across the street from the Conservative Political Action Convention, Cruz brutally mocked the Obama administration's description of Russia's invasion of Ukraine as an "uncontested arrival." He called this yet another example of Obama's "tortured semantics" which have weakened America and emboldened its enemies in a way that Reagan could not have imagined.

Breitbart News Network co-hosted the Uninvited II summit at which Cruz was speaking.

Cruz said that the Obama administration has used the term "kinetic action" to describe its Libya failures, "spontaneous protests" to describe the terrorist attacks in Benghazi that killed four Americans, and a "display of international unity" to describe the nuclear deal with Iran that has elsewhere been described as a "historic mistake."

"These are the words of fools," Cruz said.

He said such equivalence has "left the world wondering whether he will defend the liberties that Americans hold dear and act to protect the interests of the United States."

He further criticized Obama for saying that Putin has a "different set of lawyers making a different set of interpretations," quipping that he did not think Putin consulted his team of lawyers before going into Crimea.

Cruz said that his foreign policy views were modeled after Ronald Reagan's and were between the neoconservative views of John McCain and the libertarian beliefs of Paul, a potential 2016 rival who has been working to differentiate himself from the so-called isolationist views of his father, former Rep. Ron Paul.

[SoConPubbie]

	"If we must have an enemy at the head of Government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures." - Alexander Hamilton "We don't intend to turn the Republican Party over to the traitors in the battle just ended. We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support. Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates wouldn’t make any sense at all." -- President Ronald Reagan "A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." - Thomas Paine 1792 "It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." - Samuel Adams "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams

[SoConPubbie]

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[onyx]

How do you like Presidents Dole, McCain and Romney..lol.?

[Cringing Negativism Network]

Cruz you are right, but do not lost sight of China.

Russia and China are both competing with America.

A huge segment of America’s establishment has signed on to a Chinese system which at its core, is pro-Chinese.

Totally signed on. The problem with this is, the Chinese system is at its core, pro-Chinese.

Not pro-American. Pro-Chinese.

So America’s establishment is totally signed onto a system which seeks to replace America.

This was ok for a while, because China was simply a way to grow. But the fact has not changed, that China is structurally pro-Chinese. It is blatantly biased, and structurally opposed to America.

Yet even now, our entire establishment continues to support it. And oppose Russia.

In my opinion we need to pay more attention to China.

We have a huge country, ever growing, becoming ever more threatening to America.

Yet we oppose Russia?

[lavaroise]

Shake down terrorist artists, Obama always admires/bows to them, like racist Roosevelt for Stalin, or even Hitler, who knows.

[skinkinthegrass]

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[Colonel Kangaroo]

Considering Rand Paul’s policy is closer to the founders of the nation, I’d say Paul’s position is to the right of Cruz unless what conservatives are trying to conserve is the world view of Woodrow Wilson and FDR.

[Colonel Kangaroo]

Don’t forget our hero Winston Churchill who abandoned Poland to his friend Stalin. That’s one incident the neocons won’t mention in the midst of their endless bashing of Neville Chamberlain.

[lavaroise]

And Finland too. Although the Swedes did block that in part because Hitler was allied with Stalin and wanted an excuse to invade Sweden.

[Aqua Buddhist]

Agreed.

[12th_Monkey]

“These are the words of fools,”

OH SNAP!!!!

[SunkenCiv]

Note: this topic was posted 3/7/2014. Thanks SoConPubbie.