In Tuesday’s State of the Union address, President Barack Obama flatly rejected GOP presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)’s call to fight the threat of the Islamic State by carpet bombing areas of the Middle East occupied by terrorist fighters.
We need “more than tough talk or calls to carpet bomb civilians,” Obama said, adding: “That may work as a TV sound bite, but it doesn’t pass muster on the world stage.”
The Associated Press pointed out that such a campaign would be difficult, given the high volume of civilians living in ISIL-occupied territory, after Cruz proposed carpet bombing “where ISIS is, not a city” during a December Republican presidential debate.
Obama instead called for a diplomatic, coalition-based solution, arguing that the U.S. must also refrain from trying to “take over and rebuild every country that falls into crisis.”
“That’s not leadership. That’s a recipe for quagmire, spilling American blood and treasure that ultimately weakens us,” he said of the carpet-bombing proposal. “It’s the lesson of Vietnam, of Iraq – and we should have learned it by now.”
Contrast…ours=President Obama. Theirs-Ted “Carpet Bomb” Cruz and Donald fucking Trump.
We win.
Right? He was brilliant as usual and all the other reasons I love him,
Why, why do small minds always think the best answer is BIG BOMBS
Ted/Rafael, Stuck in the Sixties, Cruz is using Vietnam talk for an endless confrontation in the desert. How does one carpet bomb sand?
Is Rafael/Ted aware of how President Obama got Bin Laden or some of the worst terrorists of the middle east?
Repubs will never learn and their fallback position is always more war and bomb diddy bomb bomb.
Personally, I think that we should send Cruz and Trumpet mouth over there and put them both on the airwaves 24/7. The terrorists would give in no time.
They like BIG BOMBS and they cannot lie
Republicans cannot deny
That when they lay waste
To a foreign place
Makin’ corpses with great haste
They get SPRUNG