Oh my goodness! Someone had the courage and good sense to vote against John Kerry, who referred to Syrian tyrant and mass murderer Bashar al-Assad as "my dear friend"? Truly horrifying!
Marcus also excoriates Cruz for opposing Obama's nomination of Chuck Hagel for secretary of defense:
"But with his latest attack on Hagel, Cruz has gone too far. Cruz has every right — indeed, he has an obligation — to question Hagel vigorously. He has a right to demand relevant information. He has a right to vote against Hagel; indeed Republicans are now filibustering the nomination.
But he doesn’t have the right to smear Hagel, with no supporting evidence, with insinuations that the nominee received money from foreign governments or extremist groups."
As Marcus surely knows:
- Hagel has the support of the Iranian press;
- Hagel allegedly said that Israel controls the State Department (see: http://freebeacon.com/account-of-2007-speech-prompts-letter-from-senators-to-hagel/);
- Hagel refused as a senator to sign a letter to the European Union calling on it to designate Hezbollah a terror group;
- Hagel opposed funding the USO Center in Haifa and said, "Let the Jews pay for it";
- Hagel said that “The Jewish lobby intimidates a lot of people up here,” i.e. in the US Senate;
- Hagel signed a letter calling upon Obama to talk with Hamas.
Jeff, I am second generation. My father's entire family perished in the most horrible way. You don't know how painful is for me to watch people like Ruth ALLYN Marcus, Sarah Silverman, etc., overfed, overprivileged, overprimitive.
ReplyDeleteSadly, the wrong people perished.
dr anna
I just listened to NPR's/The Atlantic James Fallows's comments on the danger of not having a Secretary of Defense: "North Korea just has a nuclear ..., Afghanistan ..." End of the list. Yes, no mentioning of Iran, no mentioning of Syria, no mentioning of anybody else.
ReplyDeleteI spent my youth in my second country and although there were problems, there was one positive aspect - preoccupation with ethical aspects, and unlike now in the U.S. the intelligentsia, including my millieu of one of the oldest universities in the world was part of the discussion.
Here you have now prostitutes competing for the right to be called the greatest prostitute of all.
Scary. Disgusting. Evil.
dr anna