There’s no point splitting hairs over whether Texas Sen. Ted Cruz or Florida Sen. Marco Rubio is the more egregious warmonger. Both love the bloody and costly U.S. empire. Both believe in American exceptionalism. Both want to pour money into the military, as though America were militarily threatened. Both want to prevent detente with Iran, which poses no danger, and both hype terrorism as an existential threat.
If you need further proof of the essential sameness of Cruz and Rubio, writes Sheldon Richman, you need only observe their attempts to portray Barack Obama as a peacenik determined to dismantle the American empire. Considering that Obama is bombing at least seven Muslim countries; sending more troops to Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria; and backing the Saudis’ genocidal war in Yemen—and that he supported Secretary of State Clinton’s disastrous regime-changing intervention in Libya—we can imagine what Cruz and Rubio think a hawkish foreign policy should be.
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