RE: isolationist on foreign policy.
Has anybody asked Rand or Ron Paul whether they would have invaded the Taliban controlled Afghanistan after we knew that they were giving sanctuary to Osama Bin Ladin?
Also, what would they have done after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor?
“Has anybody asked Rand or Ron Paul whether they would have invaded the Taliban controlled Afghanistan after we knew that they were giving sanctuary to Osama Bin Ladin?”
Even if he said no, I doubt that would work against him politically. Most people recognize that Afghanistan’s always going to be a smoldering craphole. Pouring money into bombing and rebuilding it isn’t going to change it.
We might have killed Bin Ladin sooner had we not gone into Afghanistan. Or we might never have gotten him. Or maybe he was in Pakistan all along.
But I don’t think Afghanistan is any better, or worse, after all we’ve done there.