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Spike his water with Imodium. Might stop the verbal diarrhea.
Another Republican who is a foreign policy idiot.
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Cruz & McCains comments are examples of the GOP shifting blame from themselves to obama for current events in the ME. Otherwise theyd understand that the problems are maliki and assar.
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Cruz is projecting his own deep narcissism on the US as a whole. Why are there so many psychopaths in Congress?
Absolutely no surprise that Blitzer (a strong R) had his Tea Party buddy on to give him a soapbox. Blitzer hates Obama as his comments about the president earlier this summer showed. And he loves the Tea Party.
“While we all wish the Iraqis success in their most recent attempt to form a government, it is the height of hubris and ignorance to make American national security contingent on the resolution of a 1,500-year-old religious conflict,” he wrote.
Anyone in the comments section waiting to make some homophobic or sexist post, take note: this is how you do trolling.
The “side issue” is the main issue, cabron.
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“While we all wish the Iraqis success in their most recent attempt to form a government, it is the height of hubris and ignorance to make American national security contingent on the resolution of a 1,500-year-old religious conflict, he wrote.”
This guy is a case study in ignorance. In a short time he has reached his goal of matching the heroes of the hard right, Senators Helms and Thurmond in ignobility.
Psychotic: as Senator McCarthy and the elder Cruz in so many batty ways, the height of hubris and ignorance.
For all their jet-setting the pols and media of our benighted Village seem as trapped within the CONUS bubble as those poor sods under that town-sized one in CBS’ summer series.
Last night, babble ruled the bubble-locked.
On another night in less serious times I would have laughed but this tiresome, over-wrought tittle tattle and massaged batting averages from the bought and paid for usual suspects and surprising newer characters harms America’s future.
Remember the good ol’ days when pundits, politicians, journalists and the like actually waited until after a speech to comment on its contents. Fox news was all over the speech yesterday, hours before it was delivered, and here’s Cruz doing the same. And then they claim that they’re just being fair and equal or not political. Asshats, every single one of them.
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I don’t think I’ve seen Ted Cruz be right before.
This is sort of weird.
I don’t get it. Why is this idiotic?
We shouldn’t make our foreign policy dependent upon attempting to resolve the Syrian Civil War. We shouldn’t commit to a policy that can only work if we heal the Sunni/Shiite fissure.
We can’t do either of those things, and it would be foolish to try.
It’s the main issue for Syria and Iraq.
It’s not the main issue in our foreign policy, and it shouldn’t be.
We can’t fix the Middle East. If there is a problem that requires our attention, we should focus narrowly on that problem, and accept that the region is still going to be a mess overall no matter what we do.
Ok here’s my point. Cruz is speaking out of turn. He is assuming he knows what the President is going to do and say before the fact and is make grand pronouncements against it. Next as far as all my reading has shown me no one was talking about an either or situation, only Cruz. Next Cruz and far to many other Republicans have a very simplistic view of foreign policy.
Now all that said, Iraq having a stable, inclusive government and the Syria civil war coming to end will in the long run have to be part and parcel to ISIS/ISIL no longer being a viable group that threatens the region. However, the sad part of all this I see neither happening anytime soon so we are going to be left to mow this lawn for a long time. Colin Powell said one very correct thing about invading Iraq in the first place; We break we will own it. Well we sure as hell broke it and now we own it.
Yes, we should just completely ignore that those conflicts are much of what made the rise of ISIS possible in the first place, and that ISIS has exploited those conflicts to make the territorial gains that it has.