September 26, 2014      3:22 PM
Stanford: Bomb Mexico
From the left--Foreign policy pronouncements for two GOP candidates are just jokes....except they are not
Sometimes
it’s hard to tell whether a politician is crazy or just joking. The problem is
usually that no one is laughing. Such was the case recently when two candidates
offered a radical solution to the humanitarian crisis on the Texas border: Bomb
Mexico. Serious or not, it shows how far the anti-immigrant tide has carried
some politicians from realistically addressing border security and immigration
reform.
The
first example of this idea to turn South Texas into a war zone happened in June
at a Republican candidate forum in North Carolina. Typically, these affairs
encourage candidates to try to get to the right of each other in front of
audiences of Republican activists, but even in this environment what Mark Walker said was so out there that
Dick Cheney would have gasped in
admiration.
In response
to a question about drug cartels sneaking over our southern border, Walker, a
Baptist preacher, preached
war: “If we gotta go laser or blitz somebody with a couple of fighter jets for
a little while to make our point, I don’t have a problem with that, either.”
The rest of the Jason Stanford's column can be found in today's R&D Department.
By Jason Stanford
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