One Republican criticism of President Barack Obama’s strategy to defeat the Islamic State has been that the president has hampered his efforts by ruling out the use of U.S. ground troops. On Sunday morning, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), in discussing what to do about the militant group also known as ISIS, didn’t rule out the use of ground troops in some future context. But he did say explicitly that he didn’t think they should be deployed right now.
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There are differing opinions on foreign policy within the Republican Party. And one can imagine that were this comment from Cruz offered later in the 2016 presidential campaign (and were he to be a leading candidate in that campaign) it would be met with howls from some of the party’s hawks, such as Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.).
