Senator Satan

“Ted” Rafael Cruz, although a Senator from Texas, was born in Canada to a Cuban father and educated at Princeton and Harvard Law. Texas Senators reached an apparent bottom low with Lyndon Johnson. The days of Sam Houston, John Reagan, Roger Mills, Lee O’Daniel are long gone, but the standard after Johnson, incredibly, keeps moving down and down.


I watched a debate between Cruz and Tucker Carlson, the subject of which was supposed to be whether the U.S. joining the Israeli attack on Iran is good for Americans (other than casualties and taxes). With Cruz I saw a politician (and I mean that in every derogatory sense) display his great talents---evasions, non sequiturs, and changing the subject without ever giving a clear position. While pretending to the posture of a dignified elder statesman.


I thought immediately about how Satan works in the world and wins over many with plausible and seemingly sincere lies. After all, he is the Father of Lies. I saw the snake hissing in Eve’s ear.


Cruz favours an American attack on Iran in support of Israel, although he never came out and directly said so or gave any sufficient reason why. In answer to that issue he diverted to a tale about how he is neither an interventionist nor an isolationist but a very wise and thoughtful chooser of what foreign invasions are necessary. He admitted that we cannot attack every country with “bad people” but never made clear why Iran was one of those that needed to be attacked. Every reason he mentioned fell short of war justification.


When Carlson asked Cruz what “regime change” would look like in Iran he had no opinion, causing us to wonder if he ever even thought about it. Regime change? Like Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Ukraine? The issue of regime change was evaded by Cruz flattering Carlson that he agreed with him 80% of the time.


Carlson queried why the U.S. should be concerned with war for the benefit of another country when our country is showing deterioration in ways that need to be addressed? Pointing out that domestic society has been declining since the supposedly beneficial end of the Cold War. Cruz retreated immediately to Republican boiler plate. Our problems are caused by Democratic mayors in big cities, he declared. How this is responsible for falling life expectancy, impoverishment of the working class, and deteriorating infrastructure was not addressed.


Cruz’s answer is classic Republican evasion—avoiding what is real and serious by substituting a slogan.


And why should the U.S. government be involved in arranging other people’s countries at all? Countries that cannot harm us? I thought that was what the people elected Trump to get rid of.


And it seems to be bad form to murder another country’s respected leaders and scientists. Does anybody do this other than Israel?


My friends, let us remember that Israel has an arsenal of nuclear weapons and has refused, unlike Iran, international inspection. That President Kennedy was acting to restrain Israel getting nuclear weapons at the time of his death. That both international inspectors and U.S. intelligence have for two decades discounted that Iran intended a nuclear bomb. And that Cruz’s last election campaign got $2,000,000 support from Israel advocates.


Satan is real and here. His lies have long governed the U.S. government.