Ted Cruz explains why he believes the Iraq War became a strategic mistake, arguing that the U.S. moved beyond protecting national-security interests and into prolonged nation-building. He says the military’s primary mission should be defeating threats to the United States rather than attempting to remake other countries into Western-style democracies. Cruz has expressed similar views for years, repeatedly arguing that U.S. military objectives should be narrowly tied to American national security rather than open-ended political reconstruction overseas.
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