Texas Senator and Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz argued the US “should stop engaging in the fiction of trying to find these moderate rebels,” and “No one in their right mind would believe Putin’s assertion he’s there to help go after the terrorists” on Wednesday’s “America’s Newsroom” on the Fox News Channel. Cruz stated, “It is extraordinarily dangerous, and the tensions between Russia and America are only escalating, and sadly, this is a direct manifestation of the weakness of the Obama-Clinton foreign policy, leading from behind, this is what it produces. And we’ve got a reality now that Vladimir Putin, not only doesn’t respect the president of the United States, but he considers him a laughingstock, and that is profoundly dangerous for America and the world, and we’re seeing the chaos in Syria and the chaos in Iraq is also a direct consequence of the failed foreign policy of this administration.” When asked if the president was right to let Russia “have at it,” Cruz stated, “of course he’s not. And this is what happens — if you look at leading from behind, which is one of the most honest characterizations of Obama-Clinton foreign policy, America recedes. So, Russia is stepping in