Ted Cruz On Fox News: Obama “Does Not Wish To Defend This Country” From Terrorists [VIDEO]

The Guardian recaps today’s predictable reaction by Ted Cruz:

Speaking to reporters ahead of a “rally for religious liberty” in Greenville, South Carolina, Cruz said of the victims of the Paris attacks: “They were not injured by some faceless menace. They were not injured by some abstract and inchoate violent extremism. “They were injured by radical Islamic terrorism, an evil that is at war with the people of America, that is at war with freedom-loving people across the globe.”

Repeating a common charge against Obama regarding semantics as much as policy, Cruz added: “We need a commander-in-chief willing to utter the words ‘radical Islamic terrorism’ because it is the Islamists who embrace this extreme political and theological philosophy that … will murder or try to forcibly convert anyone that doesn’t share their extreme view of Islam. Right now, President Obama is launching between 15 and 30 air attacks a day. It is pinprick air assault. It is photo-op foreign policy. It makes for a good shot on CNN, but it doesn’t actually do anything to stop the terrorists.”

Cruz went on to say that only Christian refugees should be welcomed by the United States. Last night Cruz issued a statement which declares that US forces must disregard the possibility of civilian casualties in its assaults on ISIS strongholds.