Good morning. Good afternoon. Good evening, wherever you are. And welcome to the politics guys with your host, Jay Carson and Michael Baranowski.

Welcome to the politics guys. I'm Michael Baranowski, a political scientist at Northern Kentucky

University. My co-host this week, as always, is Cleveland Area Attorney and sometime Republican

strategist Jay Carson. Our top story this week is the fallout from Tuesday's terrorist attacks

in Brussels, Belgium, that left 31 dead and over 300 wounded. This was followed on Friday

by another ISIS suicide bombing, this one in an Iraqi soccer stadium, which killed at least

29 people. Now, as we've talked about before on the show, the Civil War in Syria, it's now in its

sixth year, has allowed ISIS to expand its territory and its operations. And while there are no regular

U.S. ground forces in Syria, special operations troops have been at work there. For instance, this

week they killed a top ISIS commander responsible for organizing the group's financing, and the

week before that U.S. airstrikes took out their minister of war. Now, it seems to me President Obama's

response has been kind of more of the same under the belief that the U.S. is slowly destroying

terrorist group. And as expected, at least expected by me, Republicans hoping to get Obama's job

are calling for much more aggressive action. Donald Trump, for instance, once again reiterated

his call for banning Muslims entering the U.S., which is a really popular position among

Republican primary voters. Ted Cruz, I think, went one step further, suggesting that local

law enforcement should patrol and secure Muslim neighborhoods in the U.S. before they become radicalized, while at the

same time, ironically, arguing that Trump didn't have the background to conduct the non-insane foreign

policy. And then there's Hillary Clinton, who I think was far more moderate, which kind of

makes sense, considering that she's running partly on a, if you like Obama, you'll like me,

platform. And also, of course, you'll like me platform.

And also, of course, she was his secretary of state for four years.

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