Posted on 12/03/2014 1:54:34 PM PST by ObamahatesPACoal
Trying to strike a balance between shedding his isolationist label and defending his nontraditional GOP views on foreign policy, Sen. Rand Paul took another jab Tuesday at his more hawkish colleague, Sen. John McCain.
In a discussion hosted by Paul Gigot, editorial page editor at The Wall Street Journal, Paul argued he's not in favor of a total abandonment of U.S. intervention overseas but was unapologetic in saying he's "one of the least reluctant to go to war."
(SNIP) "But I do believe less. I believe we've been everywhere all the time. We're about to bankrupt our country and there is great danger to what we've been doing," he said. "I want less. McCain wants more. He wants 15 countries more or 15 wars more."
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I don’t have a dog in this fight.
I first read this as “15 more YEARS” and thought heck McCain, you’re only 80, why aim so low.
I agree with McDork on the “Fifteen” part.
However, I’d change “years” to “breaths”.
Go away McDork and die, die, die.
When McCain pushes military aid to “fight ISIS” in the Middle East or “fight Putin” in Ukraine I see benefits efor defense contractors who give him money to win elections.
McCain spent his last years in uniform as liasion with Congress for the Navy helping to pitch and sell defense contractor products.....
Please gentlemen, tear each other up. Cage fight. Nobody comes out alive.
War is not like the movies. It is ugly, brutal and a destroyer of men and souls. It is not pretty nor is it glorious. Soldiers go to war for god, country and glory. They fight to survive and for their brothers in arms beside them. When at war that is their family. That is why they fight. War should be a last resort unless there is no alternative that does not put us in even greater danger.
The way not to go to war is if our enemies know that war with the United States is a path to total annihilation, followed by death and despair for the living that are left. Only fools would then try our resolve. The cold war is a perfect example of this. NATO and the Soviet Union had the capability to destroy each other as a functioning society. Neither side pulled the trigger. Only a fool would.
WWII was a war of total destruction and violence. Total War works. Oddly enough the United States at the end of WWII did what no victor in total war has ever done. We rebuilt our former enemy and made them into allies. A brilliant move by General Marshall, President Truman and President Eisenhower.
“If you are not willing to kill your enemy and all that stand with him, surrender for he has already defeated you.”
Couldn’t have said it better myself.
“he’s “one of the least reluctant to go to war.”
Wake up, Rand Paul.
You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you. - Leon Trotsky
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