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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 ABCs 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
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BeyondGeography
(39,374 posts)1. Trés original!
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
or pick up the cost yourself
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)3. How do you have an "overwhelming" bombing campaign against a terrorist
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).