[SoConPubbie]

If that is your only criticism (was it?), you have no beef with Rand Paul since he has called for cutting off welfare to BOTH Israel in the Arabs.

If you cannot see the total lack of morality in that position you are totally helpless, as Rand Paul and his nutty Father are.

One country shares are values and will not survive without our help.

All the others in the region are our enemies to one extent or the other.

Libertartians, basically greedy amoral Republicans.

Just half-conservatives.

[OneWingedShark]

>One country shares are values and will not survive without our help.

Two nitpicks:
1 — ‘Our’ not ‘are.’
2 — That assumes that their God will not help them; as a Christian, and having read Revelation, I can’t see that as happening on the permanent basis that “kill all Jews” would result in (that is to say, God will ensure a remnant survives).

[newzjunkey]

If foreign policy is driven by superstition or racially motivated, America's ideals are truly lost.

Rand Paul questioned the financial wisdom of an ongoing policy of "checkbook diplomacy." This is not anti-Semitism in any sense. Shame on those demeaning the term with false accusations! They're as ignorant, harmful and hateful as Holocaust deniers.

It was as recently as W's administration, the U.S. was called "no friend" to Israel--an outrage! The policies and actions of the Israeli government cannot be beyond criticism; for example, Israel's attack upon the U.S.S. Liberty in international waters killing dozens of American sailors.

When they do evil, they too must be held to account. A "free pass" whether prompted by superstition rooted in Biblical fundamentalism, or out of pro-Semitic racism, is antithetical to constitutional principles and must not drive the foreign policy of the United States.