???????????????? This really smacks of his nutball father’s concept of American Isolationism.....
War? Who the hell are we gonna go to war with under this Oresident? Exactly Nobody. This includes North Korea.
If anything, the only war being seriously planned here is the Oresident’s war on traditonal America.
Give me a break.
Preciselt. What are you eager for, Senator?
This president sent troops to Libya without congressional approval to change the regime.
Then they rioted and killed the US Ambassador and 4 others.
Rand Paul is right. The GOP did tremendous damage to itself over the last decade by adopting the foreign/military policy of a bunch of big-government neo-conservative @ssholes who would blow their collective brains out before they would ever out on a military uniform themselves.
It's actually George Washington's concept non-intervenionism. Trade, travel, and discourse with all nations, but not mistaking their fights for your fights.
Isolationism is better described by someone like Pat Buchanan's desire for higher trade barriers and national autarky.
I don’t think it smacks of anything “nutball.”
We committed miltary force to Afghanistan, ostensibly, to 1) catch Osama bin Laden and 2) remove the Taliban from the seat of the Afghan government for aiding him.
bin Laden is dead and Hamid Karzai became the Afghani president in 2001.
Where are the troops? Oh, that’s right. Still in Afghanistan. What role did the U.S. play in removing Qaddafi from power in Libya only to have al Qaeda operate without fear there (without Congressional approval and with the US operating under NATO command)?
There are other examples, of course. Paul may confuse the terms “war” with “military action” but he is essentially correct.
His bashing the GOP for its war-love is directed, I believe, at McCain and Graham, two GOPe politicians if ever there were any, who never saw a problem that couldn’t be solved without U.S. military intervention as a first resort.
His association of evangelicals with the war first crowd is a bit of a stretch IMO but is no doubt his own early strategic positioning for a presidential run. Reagan spoke of a big tent Republican Party and Paul is simply stretching the fabric to make potential, non-GOPe supporters take early notice (namely, libertarians and the more secular-minded conservative voters).
I see it as Paul executing a plan to make a run for the White House, walking a tightrope of accumulating non-traditional or potential GOP/conservative voters in larger numbers than the traditional GOPe and evangelical supporters he can afford to lose.
It is a bold plan. Fortune favors the bold.
“This really smacks of his nutball father’s concept of American Isolationism.”
Juan McCain, is that you?
If you want to bring democracy to the muslim world go recruit your own army. Your BS wars are the reason we have Obama now.
Iraq is a greater threat now than it was before. They are now actively cooperating with Iran. So what did you get for those trillion of dollars and thousands of lives? Nada. And yet you still want to do it again.