Cruz repeats Rand’s foreign policy as his own - calls it “Cruz doctrine”

[Valli6]

Cruz repeats Rand’s foreign policy as his own - calls it “Cruz doctrine”

Cruz repeats what Rand Paul has been saying about intervention while trying to distinguish himself from Rand Paul by saying he’s not Rand Paul… again.

From A daillycaller article by Jamie Weinstein 4/28/15 called 'The Cruz Doctrine: Ted Cruz Opens Up About His Foreign Policy Worldview'
http://dailycaller.com/2015/04/28/t...-opens-up-about-his-foreign-policy-worldview/

LAS VEGAS — Ted Cruz wants you to know that he isn’t a Rand Paul on foreign policy – but he isn’t a John McCain*either.

“The touchstone of foreign policy should be the vital national security interest of America,” Cruz said, arguing his foreign policy was neither “full neocon” nor “libertarian isolationist.”

“Historically, America has always been reluctant to engage in military conflict,”

“if and when U.S. military force is required…
First, it should begin with a clearly stated objective at the outset. It should be directly tied to U.S. national security”…
Second we should use overwhelming force to that objective….
Third, we should get the heck out - It is not the job of the U.S. military to engage in nation building to turn foreign countries into democratic utopias.”

Here’s the author's alleged “difference”:

Cruz’s foreign policy differs from*Rand Paul’s because, among other things, he appears more willing to commit American military might if necessary than the Kentucky senator, such as potentially in*Iran. But Cruz sometimes opposes more hawkish senators like John McCain, Lindsey Graham and — arguably — Marco Rubio*because he doesn’t believe America should use the*military to help spread democracy abroad.

And yet:

Like many 2016 contenders, Cruz — who says he occasionally consults foreign policy thinkers like former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton, former CIA director Jim Woolsey and former George W. Bush administration deputy national security adviser Elliott Abrams —
frames his foreign policy through Reagan’s “peace through strength” credo.

 

[Vanguard101]

Cruz has always said that though. If anyone switched, it was Rand Paul. Cruz's foreign policy is closer to Reagan's.

 

[hells_unicorn]

Sorry Cruz, you're not fooling me, or anybody else who knows that history goes back more than 2 days.

 

[dannno]

Cruz has always said that though. If anyone switched, it was Rand Paul. Cruz's foreign policy is closer to Reagan's.

Said /= Done

 

[Brett85]

The foreign policy that Cruz claims to support is completely contrary to the foreign policy of his advisers and the foreign policy of the people who he would likely appoint as Secretary of Defense, like Joe Lieberman or John Bolton. Cruz can claim all day long that he's some kind of a "moderate" on foreign policy issues, but the people that he associates with and trusts to give him foreign policy advice proves otherwise.

 

[Feeding the Abscess]

If it's acceptable for Rand to say he's not his dad, and is more willing to use force around the world, and his supporters will find ways to say he's actually just like his dad and using rhetoric to fool people into believing he's different, why is it wrong for Cruz to do the same with Rand?

Serious question.

 

[Valli6]

If it's acceptable for Rand to say he's not his dad, and is more willing to use force around the world, and his supporters will find ways to say he's actually just like his dad and using rhetoric to fool people into believing he's different, why is it wrong for Cruz to do the same with Rand?
Serious question.

He is now expressing all the same ideas both Rand Paul AND RON PAUL have always expressed regarding foreign policy!

i.e.:
- he's not an isolationist
- he's not a neocon
- reluctant to engage in military conflict
- if and when U.S. military force is required:

have a clearly stated objective at the outset
should be about U.S. national security
use overwhelming force
then get the heck out
and no nation building​

Nevermind Rand Paul! This is Ron Paul's foreign policy!
He's claiming this as his own unique set of ideas and hoping the label "The Cruz Doctrine" sticks.
At the same time he's implying Rand's foreign policy is something different because, you know those Pauls - they're “libertarian isolationists.”

Cruz should not need to use Rand Paul in order to express what's supposed to be his own original viewpoint. He's done this before.

As far as comparisons of Ron and Rand go - I was never under the impression that Ron Paul was a pacifist (He's not!),
so I'm not so taken aback when Rand states that there are times when force is necessary.

 

[adelina]

I can't take Ted Cruz seriously. All talk and no actual work done. Missed the vast majority of his senate committee meetings, missed almost 20% of this year's senate floor votes. Long rant against Loretta Lynch only to miss the final vote. All hot air and no action.