Posted on 02/08/2015 12:11:24 PM PST by Steelfish
Sen. Ted Cruz Would Deploy U.S. Troops Against ISIS "If Need Be" Feb 8, 2015 By LAURA WAGNER
GOP presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said today he would take put U.S. troops on the ground in the fight against ISIS if it was necessary to "accomplish the mission."
"The mission should be defeating ISIS before they succeed in carrying out more horrific acts of terror, before they succeed in murdering Americans. If need be, we should go that step," Cruz told "This Week" anchor George Stephanopoulos when asked whether U.S. troops on the ground should be considered.
Cruz's answer echoed that of fellow GOP hopeful, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, who said last Sunday on "This Week" that he "wouldn't rule out" deploying American troops in the fight against ISIS.
Cruz, however, emphasized that the first steps in combating the terror group should be arming the forces already battling ISIS on the ground, and stepping up the severity of air strikes.
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You really should never rule out much of anything as president.
you don’t rule out anything. you don’t broadcast your certain exit dates.
the dumbasses in the White House keep broadcasting their plans to the terrorists. It’s just retarded.
Unless there’s a reason to do it...
Go Ted go! Crush islam! Restore America’s Biblical foundation! Let freedom ring!
Well, Ted, I might vote for you if need be...then again with that kinda wishy washy response not so sure now...
Freegards
LEX
more Jihad roaming US than ME
When Mogadishu shot down a Black-hawk we should have carpet bombed the entire city. When the ships were hijacked by men and boats from there we should have destroyed every ship boat and pier on the waterfront and came back every few day to do it again.
When Russia or China said something, then you puff out your chest and say 'that's one'
Wringing hands and wondering "why they hate us" empowers them. They only fear power...
Ten years ago there were threads about 40K Iranians embedded here in the US, ready to blow it all up. Since (and before) then, Iran has never suffered any jihad pain itself.
I wonder how far along we are in busting those cells... guess only the Senior Advisor knows.
Enough Americans have died. Give moderate Muslims 3 months to clean up their religion by any means necessary. If that fails, nuke Mecca and watch the pillars of Islam disappear.
Mohammad started just with a few bums with swords
The first step to defeating Islamic terrorists is to get all Dems out of positions of control in the US Govt! Federal, state and local. Period
What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.” Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I realize everyone wants ISIS to be crushed and sending troops there would do the job.
The bigger question is, after you’ve crushed ISIS, what? We crushed the Taliban (temporarily), we crushed Saddam - who have we allowed to take their place?
Well, the Taliban is back stronger and more legitimate than before, and we got ISIS instead of Saddam and failed states all over the middle east. I wouldn’t call that progress or money and lives well spent.
I would like to see from some of the freepers here an actually well thought out strategy on how to defeat this monster of an ideology for good, or at least contain it to some tiny part of the world.
So, if you were running for president how would you seriously answer that question? (Hint - Dropping A-bombs in Mecca and other unholy places is not a serious answer, nor is it going to get you elected)
“The first step to defeating Islamic terrorists is to get all Dems out of positions of control in the US Govt”
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“Islam is a religion of peace.”- Republican George W. Bush.
It is a UniParty problem.
Exactly. Secular totalitarians ('rats in the white hut & CONgre$$) identify with their "religious" Totalitarians Without Borders.
“Dropping A-bombs in Mecca and other unholy places is not a serious answer”
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It is a serious and effective answer. You just don’t like it.
You’re the type of person who would have preferred hundreds of thousands of Americans died taking Japan island by island in WW II rather than nuking Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
2nd amendment. Promote it. Stop the slaughter/rape/plunder.
Sounds good to me.
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