The Don trumped up by Name-Dropping Radio Talk Show Host

Flopping Aces ^ | 09-04-15 | Wordsmith

[Starman417]

The apple does not fall far from the libertarian tree.

The one thing that is the biggest negative in ever considering Rand Paul as PotUS is that he shares the same isolationist/non-interventionist scrawny foreign policy beliefs as his father.

Is Rand purposely trying to alienate a segment of the Republican base before primaries by commenting on Dick Cheney's foreign policy in wake of the release of a new book:

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) criticized former Vice President Dick Cheney on Thursday, calling nearly all of his foreign policy decisions spanning the last three decades a "disaster for this country."

"I think Dick Cheney has probably been wrong about almost every foreign policy decision over the last 20 or 30 years," Paul told conservative talk show host Laura Ingraham. "The only time he was actually right about something in foreign policy is when he advised the first George Bush that taking Baghdad would lead to chaos, civil war and destabilizing a region. That's ultimately what happened. "

Cheney, who served as vice president under President George W. Bush, published a new book on Tuesday with his wife, Liz, in which they blame the rise of the Islamic State on the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq.

"President Obama's decision not to leave any U.S. forces behind created the space and the conditions for the rebirth of al Qaeda in Iraq, as well as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, ISIS," the Cheneys wrote in their book, titled Exceptional: Why the World Needs a Powerful America.

The former Darth VP is correct.

Paul, a libertarian-leaning conservative with critical views of the Bush administration, told Ingraham that Cheney misread the situation in Iraq by insisting that American troops would be greeted as "liberators" in the country.

We were.

"I think what Dick Cheney promotes has been a disaster for this country," Paul said.

Cheney said Wednesday that he had "no apologies" with respect to his administration's decision to invade Iraq and topple Saddam Hussein.

Critics love this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EstVJo6URdQ

But there is a difference in the situation and objectives of the first Gulf War in 1991 that Cheney describes in interview 3 years later; from that of the 2003 Operation Iraqi Freedom.

What changed? 9/11.

Under the Bush Administration, it was determined that in a post-9/11 world, it was too dangerous to allow a wmd-loving rogue regime like Saddam's Iraq to continue its status quo of deceit and defiance of UNSCR mandates with the possibility of Saddam utilizing Islamic terrorists as proxy to deliver a wmd attack against a mutual enemy- the United States.

What would a Rand Paul foreign policy look like? How would his approach to dealing with Islamic terror differ or remain the same from that of President Obama and President Bush?

While driving home from work Thursday night, I listened to Hugh Hewitt's radio program as he played a clip of Donald Trump accusing Hewitt of attempting to ask him "gotcha" questions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9puLBIX48M

Knowing Hewitt and his obsession over asking guests if they've ever read The Looming Tower or understand the belief in the coming of the 12th Imam, he was not looking to embarrass Trump with "gotcha" questions.

The "Palin moment" is being exploited by the liberal rags:

[Georgia Girl 2]

I’m looking for a problem solver not a guy who can spout minutiae to the likes of HH and EE.

[ballearthout]

You would have to refresh my memory. I can’t recall her being asked one.

[BobL]

“AND why did Miss Carly know this? Couldn’t have been she was involved with Iran before, right???”

...or given the questions ahead of time. Expect A LOT of this to try to make Trump look ignorant.