He added that our allies are wondering why America has refused to lead the fight against radical Islam.

"All over the globe, we see radical Islam on the rise because America has receded," Cruz said. "Just about every single ally ... when you meet with them, particularly in private, they say, 'Where is America?'"
Where is America? Why is it our cause? Why is it our fight? Radical Islam is a Muslim problem, let the Muslims solve it. It's not our problem. If something happens on US soil, then we'll deal with it. It's not like we haven't already had to do that. We're not afraid of masked cowards, we're not investing in stopping these thugs, unless they're already here, and if they are, then we must hunt them down, arrest them and deport them the hell out of here and not let any more in. That was the $64,000 question back in 2001. We're told foreign Muslims were responsible for 9/11. Okay. Then we need to seal up the borders and keep them out. Did we do that? Oh, no, of course not, we did the complete opposite, and let any Muslim from anywhere into the country through Bush II's open border policy while he awaited a guest worker program. Now tell me, if foreign Muslims were responsible for 9/11 and as it turned out they were all here on visas, expired, and thus illegal aliens, then why in the hell didn't we remove every Muslim from the country here on a visa and say "sorry, but until you solve your own Radical Islam issues, you are no longer welcome here?" Oh no, we did the opposite, we let them build schools and churches and use our 501 C 3 "charity" tax fraud outfits to funnel them money.

Like I posted years ago, we're in our Period of Ironies and Opposites where the government is doing the complete opposite of what law and reason require. Our government thus is the root of the problem, it's collusion with foreign governments and foreign persons violates all standards of acceptable governance. It's corrupt to its core on all things relating to immigration, trade, tax and foreign policy.