Marco Rubio Tries To Lecture Obama On ISIS, Commits Epic Error

[JDDavis]

Potential 2016 presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) inexplicably told a conservative audience on Friday that President Barack Obama lacked a military strategy to confront ISIS because he feared upsetting Iran, a country that has actually committed itself to defeating the terrorist group.
Speaking before the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Maryland, Rubio told radio and TV host Sean Hannity that “if we wanted to defeat them militarily, we could do it. [Obama] doesn’t want to upset Iran.”
Referring to the United States’ ongoing negotiations with Iran to contain that country’s nuclear program, Rubio continued, “In [Obama’s] mind, this deal with Iran is going to be the Obamacare of the second term, and he doesn’t want them sending military to the region because they think the region belongs to them.”
There’s just one problem: Iran has been fighting ISIS just like the United States and has publicly urged America to take a larger role in the operation. Obama has even sent a letter to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei suggesting anti-ISIS cooperation

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http://thinkprogress.org/world/2015/02/27/3627902/marco-rubio-tries-criticize-obama-isis-commits-epic-fail/

Rubio is such an idiot. Actually all of the CPAC clowns are complete idiots about foreign policy.

[randys1]

1. Teaparty are morons, all of them. Not one of them qualified to wash my car

[JDDavis]

2. I'm fully convinced that 90+% of Republican politicians are idiots

The other 10% or so are just self-serving greedy people who play the game to get what they want.

[Cosmocat]

10. They are idiots, and pretty much at 90%

These clowns grew up hearing the bullshit the republicans spewed in the 90s and actually BELIEVE IT IS REALITY.

And, the whole party has devolved from trying to have SOME intellectual bullshit to justify their nonsense to just waking up in the morning, turning on headline news and picking the first bad thing that comes up with it and figuring out how they are going to blame PHBO or the liberal boogyman for it. THAT is the sum of their political discourse now.

That said ... It says just how bad our situation is that they 1) get elected in the first place 2) the american public is either so numb of flat dumb enough to not punish them for it.

The sad fact is, republicans today are even bigger raging assholes than they were in the 90s and this country is even more tolerant of them.

[leveymg]

3. This is part of the GOPs courtship ritual with another group of idiots - the necons.

Remember what happened the last time?

[C_U_L8R]

4. Rubio the dehydrated man-child

What little there was of his undeveloped brain
must have dried up and blown away.

[Peregrine Took]

9. I love Jim Wards' imitation of Rubio drinking ......"glug glug glug"

[GreatGazoo]

5. Surprised he could make it though such a statement with so many reminders of thirst

those dry deserts in the ME and then "ISIS" sounds like "ices"...Mmmm, ice water...

[JDDavis]

6. Love this! n/t

[Renew Deal]

7. Rubio is wrong about the two foreign policy issues he has spoken about

Cuba and ISIS.

And I bet he's wrong about the rest of them too.

[JDDavis]

8. I don't know a single issue Republican politicians get correct. n/t

[Zambero]

11. The Middle East, One Big Bad Happy Family!

Those warring nations along with ISIS aren't really out to get the upper hand and kill each other in the process. All those centuries of inter-sectarian violence and recent hostility were just meant to confuse us. Guess it actually worked on Rubio and nod-along Sean.