In Response To Paris, Ted Cruz Calls For Airstrikes With More ‘Tolerance For Civilian Casualties’

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

Source: Think Progress



It has been only hours since terrorist attacks left at least 120 people dead throughout Paris. Little is known about the attackers, their methods or their motivations.

But Ted Cruz already knows the solution: A bombing campaign that’s not afraid to kill innocent civilians.

We must immediately recognize that our enemy is not ‘violent extremism.’ It is the radical Islamism that has declared jihad against the west. It will not be appeased by outreach or declarations of tolerance. It will not be deterred by targeted airstrikes with zero tolerance for civilian casualties, when the terrorists have such utter disregard for innocent life.

Cruz did not specify where these airstrikes should take place or what they should be targeting.

Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/world/2015/11/13/3722243/in-response-to-paris-ted-cruz-calls-for-airstrikes-with-more-tolerance-for-civilian-casualties/

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So the brilliant solution Canuck Cruz comes up with for innocent civilians getting killed in Paris is to thump his chest and advocate killing innocent civilians in the mideast.

Yeah, that will totally make them not hate us, Ted.

Your conservative intellectual, folks!

[Skittles]

1. psychopath

[elleng]

2. Keep talking, a*hole!!!

[Xipe Totec]

3. Graphic warning, please

I nearly wasted a mouthful of cheap scotch.

[sellitman]

9. That was a close one.

[restorefreedom]

44. egads .looks like the joker. nt

[NastyRiffraff]

53. That's 'cause he IS the joker (eom)

[merrily]

4. So have some on DU (tolerance re civilians being implied by the reality of bombing France or Syria).

[Hekate]

5. Psychopath

[Puzzler]

6. The attackers may be French Muslims anyway...

Some who may (just may) be second generation born and bred in Paris. If so, if Cruz proposing to bomb Paris?

The above is pure speculation, BTW.

[truthisfreedom]

7. peace. peace to all.

work for peace.

[tecelote]

49. Yes.

The best response is to work for peace. The alternatives will just create more terrorists.

[uppityperson]

8. Wtf? Is he totally stupid?

[niyad]

54. batshit crazy is more like it.

[LiberalElite]

10. "Our enemy isn't violent extremism" - hmmm nt

[SoapBox]

11. Look out France...

No telling where crazy fucks like him, would start dropping bombs.

Freak.

[onecaliberal]

12. Stupid piece of shit needs to shut his pie hole.

He's a vile little man.

[Puzzler]

13. Don'tcha just love...

... those nice tolerant airstrikes? They just ooze love and understanding.

For fuck's sake.

[Judi Lynn]

14. He demands more tolerance for evil. Of course he would. He's a stinking Republican. n/t

[Alittleliberal]

15. The irony

What utter disregard for innocent life.

[onehandle]

16. GO BACK TO YOUR NATIVE CANADA OR CUBA OR FREEDONIA!

Where is he from, anyway?

Let him eat Freedom Fries.

[jmowreader]

23. R'lyeh. He's from R'lyeh.

Let us pray: Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Ted Cruz R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.

[restorefreedom]

42. canada would not be stupid enough to take him back. nt

[Jack Rabbit]

17. Oh, hear me, Zeus!

Strike some sense into that moron with a bolt of lightening,

[Eric J in MN]

18. Ted Cruz think the US military currently has

..."zero tolerance for civilian casualties."

Ted Cruz is an idiot.

[delrem]

19. Oh, the US has never cared a hang for body counts. It doesn't even do them anymore. nt

[hay rick]

20. The Republican presidential primary has metastasized.

They exited the clown car and now they are leaving slime trails. Trump was talking about indiscriminate bombing in the morning before Paris exploded. Cruz oozes evil.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

21. How about we just dump Teddy over there dressed like Rambo instead?

[davidpdx]

22. Maybe we should drop Ted somewhere

Like the middle of the desert in Syria and see how much the chickenshit wants to bark about bombing some place. Hell forget that, the man has no conscience. Sometimes you can fix what is already broken.

[CJCRANE]

24. It's kind of weird that there was less sympathy for Russia

in the Halloween incident.

There were a lot of comments in the media about how they brought it in themselves.

[Little Tich]

25. That sounds like a lousy idea... n/t

[Mendocino]

26. Another chickenhawk

struts around the barnyard, flapping his wings.

[PoliticalMalcontent]

27. Innocent people dying should be responded to with more innocent people dying.

... Fuck Ted Cruz.

Sorry for my lack of eloquence, but he deserves none.

[AllyCat]

28. What the f@ck good is that going to do???

What an idiot. A dangerous idiot.

[Cardboard Box]

29. I.. I don't get it.

Why do people on the right support this idiot? What does he have to offer? What distinguishes him from any other candidate on the republican base?

[christx30]

36. The rest of them see him as someone

that cuts through the BS. Someone that says what needs to be said without equivocation. Someone that is glad to offend those they want to offend. It's Trump's appeal too.
Ass kicking, take no prisoners kind of people. Most of them feel like they have been marginalized for too many years. The issues we care about, the ones that we see as asserting our freedom and our liberty, they see as robbing them of theirs. They see it as the destruction of the country and the family, and the gateway of communist totalitarianism. Thus applies to abortion, marriage equality, immigration reform, all of it.
So when someone like Trump or Cruz comes along as says "we're not going to take that crap. We're going to stop it in its tracks", they respond to it. They see it as their generating reasserting itself.
I go back and forth between DU and free republic just to get all kinds of opinions.

[Judi Lynn]

46. There's not anything about any of them to support among sane people.

Hatred, greed, fear, racism drives them all. They have no intention of sharing the world with people who have different beliefs, different complexions, different faiths, different outlooks. Narrow minded, hostile, suspicious people.

He knows how they work, and does his best to hit on all these issues to get their attention. Nasty, sneaky, dishonest guy. A typical right-winger.

Welcome to D.U., Carboard Box.

[christx30]

30. Ted Cruz has shown his readiness for the

White House. That readiness is at zero.

Those people hate us. The best way to get them to stop is to militarily stumble in blindly, slaughtering people right and left.
That won't cause more terrorism.

[Grassy Knoll]

31. Don't Think Of Him As Stupid....

Oh Wait,.......

[newfie11]

32. OMG I hope people that want this idiot for president take notice of this Nt.

[Turbineguy]

33. IS Recruiter in action.

Dangerous idiot.

[muriel_volestrangler]

40. Yeah, nothing recruits the next wave of terrorists

like a politician saying "I don't care about civilian deaths, I want more of Those People killed". He wants to make it look like a holy war, and there are Islamists who would move from support to taking part in violence as a result.

[restorefreedom]

43. yup. nt

[world wide wally]

34. I think he's working on the "Slime Bomb"

[Eugene]

35. Wow! Just when I thought the radical right couldn't get any crazier...

Cruz and Coulter sound off and exceed my expectations.

Of course, it would be a waste of effort to explain
to Carnival Cruz how bombing innocent people is
counterproductive, never mind morally bankrupt.

This is primal reaction, not conservatism.

[Efilroft Sul]

37. Who needs Viagra or Cialis when…

…Cruz's tough talk fluffs up the limp love chubbies of his supporters?

[keithbvadu2]

38. More ‘Tolerance For Civilian Casualties’

The Oklahoma City bombing and 9-11 must have been a delight for Cruz.

[PatrickforO]

39. That's because Ted wants another war.

Halliburton and General Dynamics need more profits! And Ted is in their pay.

[regnaD kciN]

41. In other words: give the jihadists exactly what they want...

[passiveporcupine]

45. 'when the terrorists have such utter disregard for innocent life'

That's right Ted. You want us to become just like them. That's the ticket. An eye for an eye until we have a planet of nothing but blind people.

[riversedge]

47. Predictable vile from RW.

[Ken Burch]

48. Bombings with "tolerance for civilian casualties"...

...because that worked so very, very well in Iraq and Afghanistan and Libya and Vietnam...

[sulphurdunn]

50. If he wants some heads to roll,

Cruz might want to start with the government heads of some erstwhile allies, the heads of some wealthy individuals and those of some international bankers. They are the head of the serpent. Cruz wants to keep stepping on the tail and thinks doing nothing but that will keep us from getting bit. This guy is absolutely not ready for prime time.

[Ed Suspicious]

51. .

"We must immediately recognize that our enemy is not ‘violent extremism.’ It is the radical Islamism that has declared jihad against the west. It will not be appeased by outreach or declarations of tolerance. It will not be deterred by targeted airstrikes with zero tolerance for civilian casualties, when the terrorists have such utter disregard for innocent life." ~ U.S. Senator Ted Cruz

This is vile putrid slime bubbling beneath surface always that festers long and low until an event like the attacks in Paris happen. Then they spring up like a sore pus-filled zit at the border between your facial skin and the fleshy part of your lip. It shows up tender, swollen, and we just know that taking the pin to it with a firm squeeze will bring all the relief we hoped for. The problem is the relief is only temporary, it comes with it's own self inflicted sort of pain, it damages and scars the surrounding skin, and does nothing to get at the root cause of the problem. Let's not violently release the pressure and pain inducing pus that are (Republican intellectual)Ted Cruz's ideas.

Let's not even consider the idea that a greater acceptance of the casualties of the innocent will in any way help to stem tide of discontent at the west rising in the middle east. Lets take that horseshit right off the table. I can't even think of a more wrongheaded idea than what Cruz is now publicly, opportunistically calling for here. ‪#‎blowback‬

[wordpix]

52. he can't be pres since he was born in Canada so why is he running?

[DVDGuy]

55. Mission Accomplished

Nice to see Cruz following the ISIS playbook and providing the exact response that the terror group was hoping to receive. Cruz's message will be part of ISIS's propaganda by week's end I suspect, except the propaganda's intended audience (not just in the ME, but in western countries too) won't be aware of what a crazy loon Cruz is and how his views does not represent the majority of Americans (but all they will know is that a US senator openly advocated killing Muslim civilians, which adds support to ISIS's twisted narrative).

And we wonder why we're losing the war on terror!