'It's not even a close call': Ted Cruz insists the Middle East was a safer place when dictators Saddam Hussein and Colonel Gaddafi were alive
- The presidential candidate, 44, said US should focus on its own security
- Said Middle East was more secure when Iraq and Libya dictators were alive
- Cruz said Libya was now a 'chaotic war zone ruled by radical Islamic terrorists'
Ted
Cruz believes the Middle East was a safer place before the US helped to
overthrow tyrants Saddam Hussein in Iraq and Muammar Gaddafi in Libya,
it has been reported.
The Texas
senator, a Republican presidential candidate, said America should focus
on its own security rather than toppling dictators abroad.
He
said it was 'not even a close call' when asked whether the Middle East
was more secure when Gaddafi and Hussein were dictators of their
respective countries.
Ted
Cruz believes the Middle East was a safer place before the US helped to
overthrow Saddam Hussein in Iraq and Muammar Gaddafi in Libya, it has
been reported
Cruz said the toppling of the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi had shown the US has not learned lessons from history
In an interview with MSNBC,
Cruz told Joe Scarborough: 'Now, what has been a mistake - and we’ve
seen a consistent mistake in foreign policy - is far too often, we’ve
seen Democrats and a lot of establishment Republicans in Washington get
involved in toppling Middle Eastern governments.
'And it ends up benefiting the bad guys. It ends up handing them over to radical Islamic terrorists,'
He
described Syrian president Bashar Assad as a 'monster' but warned that
ISIS extremists would sweep further across the country were he to be
overthrown.
He said: 'My view, instead
of getting in the middle of a civil war in Syria, where we don’t have a
dog in the fight, our focus should be on killing ISIS. Why? Because ISIS
has declared war on America. They’re waging jihad.'
No comments:
Post a Comment
Hello and thank you for visiting my blog. Please share your thoughts and leave a comment :)