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unhappycamper

(60,364 posts) Mon Sep 8, 2014, 08:05 AM Sep 2014

Cruz brings back Shock and Awe: Bomb ISIS to ‘Stone Age’ with ‘overwhelming’ air campaign

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/09/07/cruz-brings-back-shock-and-awe-bomb-isis-to-stone-age-with-overwhelming-air-campaign/

Cruz brings back Shock and Awe: Bomb ISIS to ‘Stone Age’ with ‘overwhelming’ air campaign
By David Edwards
Sunday, September 7, 2014 11:53 EDT

“Shock and Awe” is back, at least if Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) has his way.

In an interview with ABC News, the Tea Party back Republican suggested that the best foreign policy for dealing with the Islamic militant group ISIS was to launch and “overwhelming air campaign” to “bomb them back to the Stone Age.”

“What we ought to do is have a direct, concerted, overwhelming air campaign to take them out,” Cruz told ABC’s Jeff Zeleny in an interview that was broadcast on Sunday.

Cruz suggested that the bombing campaign could even extend into Syria, but “the objective should not be to resolve the civil war” in that country.

, Ted.

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Cruz brings back Shock and Awe: Bomb ISIS to ‘Stone Age’ with ‘overwhelming’ air campaign (Original Post) unhappycamper Sep 2014 OP

Trés original! BeyondGeography Sep 2014 #1

propose a huge tax on corps to pay for them bombs, Teddy rurallib Sep 2014 #2

How do you have an "overwhelming" bombing campaign against a terrorist TwilightGardener Sep 2014 #3

BeyondGeography

(39,374 posts)

1. Trés original!

Reply to unhappycamper (Original post)

Mon Sep 8, 2014, 08:20 AM

Sep 2014

Curtis LeMay thanks you for the mention.

LeMay, who also once told JFK he was in a "pretty bad fix," re. Cuba during the missile crisis. Kennedy made him repeat the remark before telling LeMay he was right in there, too (asshole).

These are the "patriots"; people who care about nothing more than their own egos and don't give a flying fuck about anything else.

rurallib

(62,423 posts)

2. propose a huge tax on corps to pay for them bombs, Teddy

Reply to unhappycamper (Original post)

Mon Sep 8, 2014, 09:26 AM

Sep 2014

or pick up the cost yourself

TwilightGardener

(46,416 posts)

3. How do you have an "overwhelming" bombing campaign against a terrorist

Reply to unhappycamper (Original post)

Mon Sep 8, 2014, 10:24 AM

Sep 2014

army with few structures or formations to hit? They're blended into the population and existing infrastructure. I'm pretty sure Iraqi civilians don't want to die or live in a moonscape of craters (again).

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