Ted CruzVerified account

We need a president who will stand up and unequivocally defend the national security interests of this country.

Today, Libya is a failed state controlled by warring terrorist networks that pose a significant threat.

The intervention in Libya was, in a word, a disaster.

There's no doubt al-Assad, like his father was before him, is a bad guy who has been an ally to Iran and an enemy to the US & Israel.

But by the time I came to Congress in 2013, it was clear far darker forces were at work.

For as bad as Assad was and is, radical jihadis controlling Syria would not be an improvement.

I think we should listen to our closest ally in the region, @netanyahu.

In the absence of a viable alternative to Assad that isn't ISIS...https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/674982260848766976 …