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shua
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« on: September 23, 2014, 12:50:33 AM » |
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« edited: September 23, 2014, 01:21:24 AM by shua »
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It's certainly hard to take Cruz seriously but sometimes I find it hard to take Beinart seriously too. Why does he think it doesn't make any sense to bomb ISIS if we aren't going to arm the FSA? It makes sense as a strategy so long as we are trying to limit and degrade ISIS rather than outright destroy them ourselves. Cruz is here making a more radical version of the mistake Obama is, talking about destroying ISIS while not being straight about what that would actually require if it is even plausible.
Cruz's advocacy of military power but suspicion of other nations looks like an approach Walter Russell Mead would call Jacksonian. In that sense I don't think it is anything new even if Cruz makes it look a bit more pandering and harebrained than usual. It is a stance that has widely been popular among the American Right, and stands in contrast to those Neoconservatives who combine both Jacksonian and Wilsonian values.
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