Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on Tuesday expressed his sorrow over the deadly explosions in Brussels and promised to acknowledge “radical Islamic terrorism” if elected president.
“Our hearts break for the men and women of Brussels this morning. Make no mistake — these terror attacks are no isolated incidents,” Cruz said in a statement on Facebook. “They are just the latest in a string of coordinated attacks by radical Islamic terrorists perpetrated by those who are waging war against all who do not accept their extreme strain of Islam.”
“Radical Islam is at war with us. For over seven years we have had a president who refuses to acknowledge this reality,” he continued in the statement. “And the truth is, we can never hope to defeat this evil so long as we refuse to even name it. That ends on January 20, 2017, when I am sworn in as president. We will name our enemy — radical Islamic terrorism. And we will defeat it.”
As of Tuesday morning, Belgian media was reporting that more than 20 people were killed in explosions at the Brussels airport and in the city’s subway system.
“A strike against Belgium is a strike against the US.
I just wanted to be the first to use this attack for political gain and denounce terrorism, which our President has refused to do.”
For over seven years, the carnage in our streets has continued unabated. The terrorists have killed over 70,000 in America—70,000—and yet where is your outrage, Senator? Where are the bills to curb this terrorism? Where are the speeches vowing to protect America from this face of evil? Where are your demands for action against these heinous acts of terror in our streets?
Where?
Or, Senator, is it agreeable to you when the terrorist are Americans inflicting their brutality upon other Americans?
(Statistics of homicides at roughly 10,000 per year from guns.)
Is there anyone in public life in this country more repulsive that Ted Cruz? He can’t wait to politicize this terrible event by turning it into an opportunity to criticize Obama and to make a pitch for himself to be elected President.
What makes this even worse is that Cruz knows full well the reasoning behind Obama’s unwillingness to describe the “enemy” as radical Islam. It’s not because he doesn’t recognize the danger of radical Islamists; it’s because he doesn’t want the U.S. to be seen as making Islam the enemy, out of concern for feeding the propaganda machine of the terrorist groups. Cruz is a very smart guy, he knows exactly why Obama has adopted this approach. And it’s not that Cruz rejects the logic of it, it’s simply that he cynically twists it in order to make the President appear weak or ignorant. As I said, repulsive.
Cruz has a point. A more mature approach to identifying our problems might go a long way in better dealing with them.
It’s funny how all of a sudden Europe is “us” when it’s a good soundbite, they aren’t “us” when they’re being cheese eating surrender monkeys who didn’t want to support the destabilization of the Middle East via the Iraq War,
Cruz and his ilk suck.