Donald Trump wants to shut down all immigration. Ted Cruz thinks uttering the phrase "radical Islam" will help defeat it. Hillary Clinton says the U.S. needs to "intensify and broaden" its anti-ISIS strategy.
Each of these things is dumb, in its own way. Trump and Cruz's statements are dumb in a cartoonish way—the U.S. will close all its borders because of an attack on another continent? –does Ted Cruz think it makes one difference to the military-aged Muslim males Obama is profiling and killing that the president avoids using the words "radical Islam"?
Clinton's statements may be more dangerous because they're treated as adult-like.
The U.S. anti-ISIS strategy so far hasn't yielded much on the ground. A recent ISIS rocket attack that killed a U.S. Marine based in Iraq led to the U.S. sending even more troops into Iraq. Like the war in Iraq never ended, and now Clinton suggests more of the same. Her foreign policy is cartoonish in its own special way.
She pushed the U.S. into an intervention in Libya to topple Qaddafi, bragged about it, and now refuses to connect the dots between the intervention she supported in 2011 and the failed state and breeding ground for ISIS and other radical Islamist groups Libya has become today.
"These terrorists seek to undermine the democratic values that are the foundation of our way of life," Clinton tweeted this morning. "They will never succeed."
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