Rand Paul: It's Not U.S. Responsibility 'to Fight Every War and Find Every Peace'

CNS ^ | October 8, 2019 | Susan Jones

[wastedyears]

Rand Paul is against military adventures.

[Sam Gamgee]

But for the POTUS working for the interests of Islamist powers?

[wastedyears]

Trump is against military adventures. We throw away American lives like they’re used cars. Would you speak to the families of members of the military, and tell them the real reason they will be sent somewhere that the people they will be “helping” would easily kill them anyway?

[Sam Gamgee]

I get that part but Trump is way too buddy buddy with Erdogan.

[redfreedom]

Very, very well stated.

War is yet one more thing the lefties have turned upside down on us. When Vietnam was going, it was protest the war. They even got the South defunded so the North could over run them.

Now that the lefties are in charge, and I’m including Bush on this, it’s been one endless war after another with no sign of letting up.

It’s time to just get the hell out and tend to our own borders. And yes, borders is another thing the left has turned upside down.

[zencycler]

Very well put, and compelling.

[Svartalfiar]

"We haven't been able to find peace for 18 years in Afghanistan," Paul told Fox News's Neil Cavuto in a telephone interview on Monday. "So I certainly don't think we're going to find peace in Syria. But I do think a couple of hundred people there is simply a trip wire for a bigger war or for a calamity for our soldiers."

That's because we haven't even tried to 'find peace'. If you're going to nation-build, you have to nation-build. Not simply sit soldiers in the area and tell the country, oh, go ahead, let's see what you've got. We have to do it like we did to Japan post-WWII: we build the nation, we make all the rules, we are in charge. Period. Granted, Japanese are much more orderly and rules-following than all the tribal Afghanis, but we didn't even try there.

Secondly, we need to completely break apart the Middle East and rebuild it into nations along ethnic/cultural/sectarian lines. Europe's borders that they decided on are just stupid - every country over there is full of internal strife, and that's always going to cause tense situations cross-border. Even for any nation that manages to get itself under control. Half of the map over there really needs to be redrawn.

[xzins]

I agree with redrawing national lines. I also agree that imposing rules after an unconditional surrender worked in Japan. (Plus 2 atom bombs).

Congress will never declare war, so we’re back to the present. We “could” try enforcing air space over a kurdistan region that would eventually become a nation. I’d guess 3 or 4 decades.