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The crazy conspiracy theories of Ted Cruz’s new foreign policy adviser

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March 18, 2016 at 7:00 a.m. EDT
Frank J. Gaffney, Jr., president and CEO of the Center for Security Policy, testifies before the House Armed Services Committee in Washington on Wednesday, July 13, 2005. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

The Republican presidential election campaign has not been especially blessed with sober discussion about foreign policy.

As WorldViews catalogued over the past few months, the GOP debates have had their fair share of bigoted and brutal rhetoric about the Middle East, and featured myriad incoherent and fantastical policy solutions to crises near and far.