[Steve Van Doorn]

I agree he sounds like his father for the most part but in terms of using military action he is more open about it then his father. His father would never us the military unless we here attacked at home.

Rand Paul does seem to know how to negotiate with Iran which is through China and Russia not directly because we have no ties with Iran. Just asking China and Russia isn't enough we need to persuade them to help us.

[faithhopecharity]

I am not sure I can accept your premise that we need or should go thru Russia or China

but let’s say yes....

Russia is mad as hell at USA right now (think: ‘subversion’ efforts in Ukraine) and
China is busy expanding and sees USNavy as its primarly or most immediate opponent

persuading either of them to help us ... seems unlikely at this time

and neither of them trusts Obama one iota

anyway, it would be a nice thing if it were possible....
it just doesn’t look that way

so we need to deal more directly with the problem. in my humble opinion, of course

best,
fhc