Testifying to the Senate Armed Services Committee today, Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Paul Selva rejected Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R – TX) recent calls to “carpet bomb” ISIS into oblivion.
Sen. Cruz made the comments at a weekend campaign visit to Iowa, vowing to find out “if sand can glow in the dark.” Sen. Claire McCaskill (D – MO) pressed Gen. Selva for his take on the proposal, prefacing it with concerns about civilian casualties in such an attack.
Gen. Selva appeared to concur, saying the strategy would feed ISIS’ narrative on an “apocalyptic war with the West,” saying such calls run counter to America’s national security interest and that the US military does not now, and will not in the future, engage in carpet bombings.
This is the second time in as many days the Pentagon has faulted a presidential candidate’s policy suggestions, though in this case it was prompted by questions from Sen. McCaskill. Yesterday, the Pentagon criticized Donald Trump’s call to ban Muslims from the United States on similar grounds, warning it played into ISIS’ recruitment message of the US being at war with Islam as a whole.
Cruz is a moron.
Cruz is another empty suit hack politician who offers nothing of substance.
ISIS or ISIL (whatever), is a creation of the USG to justify its presence
in the Near East, and excuse to swindle taxpayers out of 1 Trillion bucks
each year on perpetual war.
If Cruz had any clue, he would insist the USG cease funding these (terrorists).
ISIS would disappear, and there would be no reason to carpet bomb women and
children. Then again, Cruz is a flunky for war profiteers and AIPAC stooge.
Instead of trying to end the conversation with "in America's national security interests" as a justification for bankrupt policies, the proclaimers of this statement should be specific and totally describe exactly how our national security interests are served by attempting to boss the world and sticking our nose into every trouble spot across the globe creating more and more enemies, while we go deeper in debt, and our infrastructure rots.
But…but…that's what Empires do….right before they collapse.
As to your "justification," asking them to be specific is a waste of time. They'll not answer to any degree of specificity and if pressed basically tell you that you're not cleared for that level of information. And besides, the full and correct answer to the question is probably marked as super-duper Special Top Secret codeworded and compartmentalized that only zionist 5th-column Israel-Firsters have access to…so…move along, nothing to see here.
If you want to know how bloodthirsty a candidates supporters are just listen to their rhetoric. The rhetoric coming from all of the Republican candidates shows exactly how badly the Republican faithful want war. If Republican candidates can be believed they will make war with no less than Russia, China and the entire Middle East, while bullying the rest of the world into doing what we say in all aspects (or else), their interests be damned. With the exception of Israel, of course. DC will continue to bow down and lick the balls of Netanyahu and his 5th column money men in the US.
Not that the Dems are any better. Hillary is as much a warmonger as any Republican.
Just campaign rhetoric. Cruz is trying to out-trump Trump. Nothing will come of it except to make the Republican candidate unelectable.