Reply to So… Tucker Carlson just ended Ted Cruz’s career

Forum Index » Political Discussion

Reply to "So… Tucker Carlson just ended Ted Cruz’s career"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I haven't finished the interview yet. But here's my issue. He brings up that Iran is actively trying to kill Pompeo, Bolton, and Hook. Yet, Trump had their security details pulled. Cruz made a comment that during the Biden administration, the government was spending- I think he said $2M a month?- to protect these three from serious threats to their lives from Iranian assassins.

If you believed that Iranians were trying to assassinate them for work they did under Trump's first term, why pull their security?  If the answer is out of spite (he accused them of disloyalty, against all evidence) then it means that they are okay facilitating Iranian assassinations. Is that okay? And if it is, then lets drop this argument that the existence of Iranian assassins targeting government people is a reason to attack Iran. It wasn't even reason enough to defend our officials that carried out the Iran policy during Trump 1. 
[/quote]

The interview is full of outright contradictions like this. It's a master class in demonstrating the complete and total lack of seriousness of some of our most powerful leaders. By any standard, Cruz should be one of our most serious statesman - Princeton, Harvard, clerked for Rehnquist. What an embarrassment.

Ted Cruz is on the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Subcommittee on [b]Near East[/b], South Asia, Central Asia, and Counterterrorism. He ought to know the Iran issue inside and out, as well as Iraq and Afghanistan.

[/quote]

Yes exactly. I'm quite warm to a "peace through strength" approach to foreign policy and I do agree that Iran is a terrible threat to our national security. And I'm a Trump voter. However, that doesn't mean that I will get on board with every war against Iran that we are invited to, especially since we (the US) literally change our policy on Iran every 2-4 years. Every 2-4 years, we literally completely reverse our policy. That's insane and it suggests that we are too incompetent on this issue to manage a war responsibility.

The Pompeo/Bolton/Hook contradiction is really a deal breaker for me. If its true that they are being targeted for assassinations, then we won't spend a couple million to defend them on our own soil-- but we will launch a war because of it? But, wait, I thought (per the President's tweet) this security was unnecessary. Which one is it? Because, America First. I believe in that. We defend our people. And if we aren't doing that, it raises broader questions about the focus and discipline of the foreign policy wing of this administration. [/quote]

I’d like to hear an update from this poster tonight.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics