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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTed Cruz Names Anti-Muslim Conspiracy Theorist As Top Foreign-Policy Adviser
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/03/cruz-names-anti-muslim-paranoic-as-top-adviser.html#On Wednesday, Donald Trump was asked whom he consults with on matters of foreign policy. "I'm speaking with myself, No. 1, because I have a very good brain and I've said a lot of things," Trump replied.
So, Trumps top national-security adviser his own reflection shouting back at him from a mirror doesnt inspire much confidence. Ted Cruzs top national-security adviser inspires even less.
On Thursday, Cruz revealed his national-security advisory team. The first name on the list? Frank Obama is a Muslim Gaffney, Bloomberg reports. Gaffney is the Joe McCarthy of Islamophobia. His think tank, the Center for Security Policy, is dedicated to raising awareness about the jihadist infiltration of the American government. For Gaffney, Barack Hussein Obama is but the tip of the iceberg in truth, the Muslim Brotherhood has placed operatives throughout the federal government. Among their top agents: Clinton adviser Huma Abedin and anti-tax zealot Grover Norquist. In conservative circles, it's one thing to accuse liberals with foreign-sounding names of stealth jihad. Its quite another to say the same of a white male libertarian who has devoted his life to the noble cause of widening the income gap. After Gaffney wrote a full book on Norquists alleged sharia schemes, he was banned from the 2011 Conservative Political Action Conference. (The strongest verifiable evidence of Norquists jihadist sympathies appears to be that his wife is a Muslim-American)....
Cruzs other advisers are nearly as alarming. His list includes three other employees of Gaffneys think tank, along with former assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew McCarthy, author of The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America; Iran-Contra schemer Elliott Abrams; and Michael Ledeen, a former Reagan official who once said, Every ten years or so, the United States needs to pick up some small crappy little country and throw it against the wall, just to show the world we mean business."
So, Trumps top national-security adviser his own reflection shouting back at him from a mirror doesnt inspire much confidence. Ted Cruzs top national-security adviser inspires even less.
On Thursday, Cruz revealed his national-security advisory team. The first name on the list? Frank Obama is a Muslim Gaffney, Bloomberg reports. Gaffney is the Joe McCarthy of Islamophobia. His think tank, the Center for Security Policy, is dedicated to raising awareness about the jihadist infiltration of the American government. For Gaffney, Barack Hussein Obama is but the tip of the iceberg in truth, the Muslim Brotherhood has placed operatives throughout the federal government. Among their top agents: Clinton adviser Huma Abedin and anti-tax zealot Grover Norquist. In conservative circles, it's one thing to accuse liberals with foreign-sounding names of stealth jihad. Its quite another to say the same of a white male libertarian who has devoted his life to the noble cause of widening the income gap. After Gaffney wrote a full book on Norquists alleged sharia schemes, he was banned from the 2011 Conservative Political Action Conference. (The strongest verifiable evidence of Norquists jihadist sympathies appears to be that his wife is a Muslim-American)....
Cruzs other advisers are nearly as alarming. His list includes three other employees of Gaffneys think tank, along with former assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew McCarthy, author of The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America; Iran-Contra schemer Elliott Abrams; and Michael Ledeen, a former Reagan official who once said, Every ten years or so, the United States needs to pick up some small crappy little country and throw it against the wall, just to show the world we mean business."
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Ted Cruz Names Anti-Muslim Conspiracy Theorist As Top Foreign-Policy Adviser (Original Post)
KamaAina
Mar 2016
OP
Although Cruz would be a bigger disaster than Trump if he got elected, I think his chances
world wide wally
Mar 2016
#3
jpak
(41,758 posts)1. Gaffney = neocon uberdouche nutjob
sez a lot about Lyin' Ted...
yup
spanone
(135,855 posts)2. holy fuck, gaffney is out of his frickin' mind.
a certifiable neocon
world wide wally
(21,749 posts)3. Although Cruz would be a bigger disaster than Trump if he got elected, I think his chances
of being elected are lower than Trunp's.