Sen. Ted Cruz

You'd have to ask him why he said that.

My reasoning was very straightforward, which is this Ayatollah and this regime is a serious threat to the United States.

It's not a theoretical threat.

It's a threat that's reality.

Let me make a broader point on.

You asked about Joe Kent.

I don't know him personally.

I know of him, but I will say I think he embodies.

Let's talk philosophically for a second.

For a long time, people have thought about foreign policy, particularly foreign policy among Republicans in the United States, as essentially a bipolar world.

That you're either an interventionist and you want to go invade other countries and engage in military conflict, or you're an isolationist.

You want to withdraw from the world and never engage in military conflict.

And, you know, sort of the paradigmatic interventionist would have been a John McCain.

And the paradigmatic isolationist would be a Ron Paul or Rand Paul.

And those are treated as the only two options.

I can tell you I've always thought both were wrong.

I don't agree with either one of them.

And I think most Americans don't agree with either one of them.

I've always described myself as a third point on the triangle.

And so I call myself a non-interventionist hawk.