Posted on 11/18/2015 7:17:28 PM PST by Isara
Putting U.S. troops on the ground in Syria to counter the Islamic State and take on Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime would be a mistake, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said Wednesday.
"I don't believe the answer is sending boots on the ground to Syria," the Republican candidate for president told reporters in Washington. "President Obama - and I think far too many Republicans - are eager to get us in the middle of an internecine civil war in Syria. We don't have a dog in that fight."
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.
"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."
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.
So did McQuegg.
McCain and Lindsey Grahm - Chicken Hawks
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!!
we wont arm the kurds heavily because of Turkey.
worried about Russia killing the “good” rebels.
priorities are askew
We have a war here, Cruz just can’t say it.
He’ll probably wait until Trump says it first.
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.
He ain’t wrong.
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.
He’s right.
McCain not chicken hawk
...just a Benedict Arnold RINO
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.
Yeah just like the whiny baby says Mr. Cruz has adopted all of his plans, yeah right. Cruz was ahead of WB in 1975.
Andrew is putting my fiance at risk in Union Square. If something happens, I blame him.
And her. What does she want to stay here????
Because the city is great. We both love it and hate the politics.
But I am sick now, so I dont leave staten island that much. Even work out here.
it’s TIME TO LEAVE!!
go up north. i like the cold.
Ping!
“””Yeah just like the whiny baby”””
Am I correct in assuming whiny baby is Marco Rubio? Or someone else.
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
‘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
I don’t think Trump wants us to go to war in Syria. I have heard him say let Russia bomb the shit out of them.
I believe the Trump Doctrine calls for bombing the shit out of ISIS and taking their oil as payment. Also going after their bankers. I do assume though, that if ISIS is in Syria we’d have to partner up with Russia and help them bomb the shit out of ISIS.
I have no idea who these so-called rebels are.
Yup..!
The very first task for a REAL “War on Terror” would be to get control of our borders.
You could have EVERY cop driving around in a Humvee and paint the sky black with helicopters, but if you still have out-of-control borders, then NONE of that would matter.
Would that single step be SUFFICIENT? Probably not, but...
IT IS THE FIRST STEP AND IS ESSENTIAL.
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