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| Jeb Bush: |
| 2015-05-02 |
| [Times of Israel] Likely Republican presidential candidate says Muslim extremists want to 'destroy Western civilization' Jeb Bush, a likely Republican US presidential candidate, said Thursday that Islam has been hijacked by "barbarians" who seek to "destroy Western civilization." At an event at the National Review Institute in Washington, Bush was asked whether he thought Islam was a religion of peace. "I'm sure for some of the practitioners, but it's been hijacked by people who have a [sic] ideology that wants to destroy Western civilization, and they're barbarians. And so that part, which is the part that we need to confront head-on, is clearly not a religion of peace," he was quoted by The Guardian as saying. "And I think it's -- you're not offending the sensibilities of people that are peaceful in the adherence to their faith when you say what I just said," he went on. Bush, whose brother -- former US president George W. Bush -- launched the 2003 invasion of Iraq, has criticized US President Barack Obama's foreign policy, calling it "catastrophic," and has slammed the president's reluctance to explicitly say that the fight against terrorism was a fight with radical Islam. "It's not some isolated thing. It is a threat on Western civilization, and take them at their word -- they want to destroy Western civilization," Bush told the Tribune-Review in an interview in April. Bush said that under Obama, America's strategy was "to isolate and not be fully engaged, because of the fatigue Americans legitimately feel about long-term engagements, in the Middle East particularly." "One of the first things we have to do is to get back into the game and develop coalitions to take these terrorist groups out," he said. "Our enemies need to fear us, a little bit, just enough for them to deter the actions that create insecurity," Bush said at a GOP conference in April. He said restoring alliances "that will create less likelihood of America's boots on the ground has to be the priority, the first priority of the next president." |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #13 Don't think so Ship; Walker is the best option so far. Unless he steps on his dick he is the GOP choice. All the rest are has beens or damaged or RINOs. |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2015-05-02 20:31 |
| #12 The Pub rundown for 2016. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2015-05-02 19:50 |
| #11 The fat man from NJ appears to have peaked as well. His 'Bridgegate' underlings are taking their toll. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2015-05-02 18:57 |
| #10 Haven't heard much of what Walker has to say and as long as Jeb gets all the money we probably never will. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2015-05-02 18:45 |
| #9 Agreed Jeb has peaked. Let's kill Walker next. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2015-05-02 18:18 |
| #8 Jeb has been asleep the past 20 years.Lacking. Posted by newc Should have listened to his mother's advice regarding the 2016 run. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2015-05-02 12:31 |
| #7 Jeb has been asleep the past 20 years. This idiot in no way knows what he is doing. Un-studied and focusing on all the trivial bullshit we don't need. Not one policy position out of his mouth is correct. Not one. Lacking |
| Posted by: newc 2015-05-02 12:28 |
| #6 He has no loyalty to me as an American, why should I have any loyalty to him as a transnational? Exactly. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2015-05-02 10:34 |
| #5 I agree Alan C, Bush Junior didn't define the problem. It was from that original sin that all our woes since have sprung. He it was that coined the euphemism "war on terror" and all the wrong stupid strategy of dealing with Islamist fascism as if it were a policing problem instead of an ideological war. They were frightened by the prospect of alienating 1.2 billion muslims and having a full scale religious war. But they forgot that secular Muslims have been fighting Islamists for decades and would not have joined sides with the Islamofascists - if he were careful to always be standing surrounded by prominent secular Muslims at each and every media op and to clearly state it at every opportunity. |
| Posted by: anon1 2015-05-02 09:56 |
| #4 He has no loyalty to me as an American, why should I have any loyalty to him as a transnational? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-05-02 08:42 |
| #3 anon1, I agree with you up to a point. That point is the amount of respect for W. His daddy suffered from a case of noblesse oblige and passed it on to his son. Neither Bush defined the problem or followed through on the proper solutions. Oblahblah of course butchered the situation that he was handed. Bush did do many things right but he also did a couple of big ones wrong. Not identifying the enemy and not ramping up the country (remember "go shopping") were the two biggest but there were others too. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2015-05-02 08:41 |
| #2 I have a lot of respect for what Bush II did. He did try to correct the wrong of leaving Saddam in power after Gulf War I. He did many things that were right. But we lost the peace and in large part we can thank Obama pulling out for that. Early withdrawal cost it. think of what might have been. But it's lost now. Jeb Bush is not going to get anywhere unless he can speak plainly. Trying to talk tough without defining the problem is just more of the same sh*t we've had shovelled on us for 15 years now. The problem is Islamist fascism and it is implemented by Sharia. If he's serious he'll say he wants to ban Sharia in the US - and support secular Muslims instead. Cut off support to the Saudis and their evil doctrine. |
| Posted by: anon1 2015-05-02 05:42 |
| #1 The familiar Bush family song. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-05-02 03:53 |