It appears that they will be going after Rand Paul with the same venom that they employed on Pat Buchanan when he was deemed insufficiently dedicated to world empire.
Other then John McCain I can’t think of any of the neocon gang who have put their own hides on the line. A lot them have always had soft professions. Few of these ‘hawks’ seem to have any connection to the military so casualties aren’t going to affect their own homes.
Maybe we should bring back the draft, that has a way of focusing the public mind on the cost of foreign adventurism.
In which case Paul is doomed. The war hustlers are everywhere. We need another Eisenhower.
McCain wasn't always on board with the neocons. I didn't follow his politics very closely until he became a Presidential contender in 2000, but I vaguely remember his being on the side of restraint in foreign policy earlier in his career. He signed on to the neoconservative foreign policy agenda opportunistically, like so many of his other current positions.