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Rand Paul: If more people had listened to my father our war in Afghanistan would have been less tragic
Libertytree ^ | August 16 | Sen. Rand Paul

Posted on 08/16/2021 4:18:40 PM PDT by RandFan

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Brilliant op-ed from Rand.
1 posted on 08/16/2021 4:18:40 PM PDT by RandFan
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Ping!


2 posted on 08/16/2021 4:21:24 PM PDT by KC_Lion
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To: RandFan

“But our military is not meant for nation building. Not for policing the world. Not for imposing democracy in places that have never known it.

Not only are these bad ideas, but they aren’t the point of our military and they do nothing for our national defense.”


3 posted on 08/16/2021 4:24:32 PM PDT by EEGator
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Where’s GWB?


4 posted on 08/16/2021 4:26:17 PM PDT by TakebackGOP
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To: RandFan

Hardly brilliant.

His utopian vision is little different than Bush and Obama’s failed utopian vision.

He is right Liz Ceney is reprehensible and despicable.


5 posted on 08/16/2021 4:26:38 PM PDT by ifinnegan ( Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: RandFan

One disagreement: The was was not really against Afghanistan, but Pakistan, that provided bottomless equipment and replacement fighters.

All would be for nought unless the dozen or so mountain passes between the countries were sealed. We, and even Pakistan, offered to do that and the Afghan government was adamant that we could not.

This alone guaranteed 20 years of unsuccessful war, no matter how many hundreds of thousands of fighters we killed.


6 posted on 08/16/2021 4:28:19 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Do kids in Iceland still play "The Floor Is Lava?")
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To: RandFan

Specifically, what impact did GWB wars have on Christians in both countries?


7 posted on 08/16/2021 4:30:26 PM PDT by alternatives?
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To: RandFan

Ron Paul is an American Cassandra.


8 posted on 08/16/2021 4:32:25 PM PDT by allendale
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To: ifinnegan
Hardly brilliant.

That's what I thought.

If my dad were hanging around Rand Paul that dumbazz gutless BLM shitpile would still be on the sidewalk where my father would have laid him out.

9 posted on 08/16/2021 4:34:10 PM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: alternatives?
Iraq's Christians 'close to extinction'

Not sure about Afghanistan
10 posted on 08/16/2021 4:37:01 PM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan

Too late. And stop with the “It’s Bush’s fault” etc. Spend energy putting this ALL on Biden and the democrats. Biden deserves this. This is politics and everything needs to be done to expose what a disaster that political party has brought to the world. Every hanging, every beheading, every atrocity is BIDEN’S doing. The blood is on his hands directly and the democrats own Biden. Remind EVERYONE that fact. Every girl that is raped and every woman who is stoned is BECAUSE OF BIDEN.


11 posted on 08/16/2021 4:39:04 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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He’s right. We should have went over, kicked a** and come home.

Now the enemy has our equipment and money.

What did we gain from nation building? Security? No.

How much more secure if we had bombed them and left them to still be building back.

I’m not compassionate, I don’t care how they lived after 9/11.

Blow them away and come home, we made them stronger with all this other bull crud.


12 posted on 08/16/2021 4:41:07 PM PDT by Irenic ( )
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To: Organic Panic

The Bushes hate Trump every bit as much as Biden and the Rats. We have to fight this battle on two fronts.


13 posted on 08/16/2021 4:42:49 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: RandFan

Rand Paul is carrying the legacy of his father, Ron Paul, forward with honor.

Unfortunately, Loathsome Liz Cheney, daughter of Dirty Dick Cheney, is carrying her father’s warmongering legacy forward, insisting that American Christians be sacrificed on the altar of the Islamic Middle East.


14 posted on 08/16/2021 4:45:14 PM PDT by Arcadian Empire
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Trump was an anomaly that the warmongering globalists of the uniparty failed to stop in 2016.


15 posted on 08/16/2021 4:46:55 PM PDT by Arcadian Empire
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To: RandFan

Reminiscing.....

“All Your Base Belong To Us!”

Who knew then the terrorist boast was directed to the Democratic Party?


16 posted on 08/16/2021 4:58:37 PM PDT by Fearless Flyers (Proud to be of The Brave and the Free)
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To: RandFan

Stop posting this crazy Paul crap ..

No have no problem with Illegals destroying the USA .


17 posted on 08/16/2021 4:59:05 PM PDT by ncalburt (Gop DC Globalists are the real danger )
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To: RandFan

Be sure about Afghanistan:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V20DlT0y7uI


18 posted on 08/16/2021 5:11:19 PM PDT by HKMk23 (Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.)
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To: RandFan
I remember agreeing with Ron Paul, but I continued supporting W after the nation building was announced. I voiced my dismay to very few people, primarily because I felt grateful that we had Bush and not Algore as President. Turns out Algore probably would have gone along with the military-industrial establishment just like W.

Never again will I make rationalizations and hold my tongue for a Republican. I am ashamed.

19 posted on 08/16/2021 5:12:10 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA (“When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.” ― Thomas Jefferson)
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To: RandFan

UPDATE in a few minutes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJlaqjEa2Ew


20 posted on 08/16/2021 5:17:05 PM PDT by HKMk23 (Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.)
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