Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) appeared on ABC’s “This Week” to make the case against military action in Syria. He began by citing two major arguments against President Obama’s proposed intervention: “One, because I think the Administration is proceeding with the wrong objective; and two, because they have no viable plan for success.”
Cruz said the proposed attack would not have the objective of “defending U.S. national security,” protecting American lives, or defending our allies. Instead, it has been explicitly framed as a military intervention to defend “amorphous international norms,” which Cruz does not see as a proper role for the U.S. military.
He suggested some other ways the United States could express disapproval of Assad’s gruesome tactics, such as threatening to cut U.S. aid to Iraq unless the Iraqis stop allowing Iranian supply flights to pass through their airspace en route to Syria. Cruz also advised forcing a U.N. Security Council vote to condemn the Assad regime, in the full knowledge that Russia and China would veto the motion, and respond with various measures to punish and isolate those nations for standing with the Syrian dictator. Itdoes seem foolish to allow Russia to effectively veto U.N. condemnation of Syria with the mere threat of a veto.
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