Posted on 02/27/2014 7:06:39 AM PST by Colonel Kangaroo
Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, a presidential hopeful and leading non-interventionist voice in the Republican Party, believes the United States should seek "respectful" relations with Russia and avoid antagonizing President Vladimir Putin over the ongoing political turmoil in Ukraine, where a Kremlin-backed government collapsed last week.
"Some on our side are so stuck in the Cold War era that they want to tweak Russia all the time and I don't think that is a good idea," Paul said on Tuesday, in an interview with The Washington Post.
Paul's comments underscore the latest foreign-policy fissure in the GOP, where the party's libertarian wing and Republican hawks have clashed over whether Putin is a threat and the future of U.S.-Russia relations.
In recent weeks, some Republicans, such as Sen. John McCain of Arizona, have encouraged President Obama to eventually welcome Ukraine into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
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His father’s isolationism emerges. Rand Paul didn’t fall far from the tree.
Or maybe it’s his hair, which is always in serious need of an oil change.
Anyway, the choice between him & Ted Cruz just became MUCH easier to make.
I don't think the paid commie operatives helping the "Rebels" need any help.
That said, I'm not much for tweaking, but I'm all in for twisting Putin's boobies if he doesn't behave.
John Quincy Adams advised that America not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. It seems that the Pauls took his advice while Ted Cruz prefers the example of Woodrow Wilson and FDR.
Personally I’m a little uncomfortable with John Kerry making threatening statements about the Ukraine and Russia. Not sure why that is.
If it’s Paul vs. Cruz in ‘16, we’re going to have a real choice for a change.
I think Ted and Rand are triangulating themselves on either side of the RINOs that will be running in the primary against them.
We will have to wait a few years to find out though.
Paul sounding like Obama ,LOL , Putin plans to invade ,so Obama announces Big Cuts to the Military . Paul does not have to worry, Obama already surrendered
I’m not sure that Putin or any other despots have anything to fear from us right now. Nobody respects Obama or takes him seriously. We have lost all credibility.
Putin plans to invade ,so Obama announces Big Cuts to the Military.
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The timing of this “leak” was telling. The rest of the world took note.
America’s enemy is Washington DC, not Moscow.
How about if it's Cruz/Paul or Paul/Cruz? They don't agree on everything, but they can have respectful intelligent conversations.
And you know what? That duo wins. Because they're both interesting, they'll get people to listen to their energetic campaign message. hillary is obsolete with a whole lot of bad history to campaign against, and the dems have no one else emerging as a party leader.
Senator Rand “Surrender Monkey” Paul just following in his fathers foot-steps.
Let’s me see, Senator Ted Cruz or Senator Rand Paul.
Think I will take the guy that doesn’t back down in this contest, that would be Senator Ted Cruz.
Everything was okay until we broke it. Ukraine was governing itself through fair and free elections.
Elections were coming next year. Then the EU/US decided to take over by pouring billions of dollars to support a coup d’etat, and they got it, at the hands of armed neo-Nazis from the West Ukraine, which largely sided with Hitler.
The people in Crimea and South/East Ukraine don’t want a neo-Nazi regime. So they may leave.
Other than it being a bit of a stretch to characterize Ted Cruz as pushing the Fourteen Points, League of Nations, New Deal, and the United Nations organization, I think an isolationist foreign policy deprives the U.S. of the opportunity to reach out and hurt others before they come here and hurt us.
Our retaliation against Al-Qaeda & Taliban didn’t fail; we blasted their winged monkeys to smithareens. It was the highminded idealistic attempts at nation-building which came a cropper and proved so costly to us in blood and treasure.
“Hurt us, and we will come and grievously hurt you & we will then go home and won’t give a d@mn about your precious primitive societies.” - that should have been our post 9-11 strategy & IMO it is what a Cruz administration will pursue.
That’s the funny thing about the Russian POV: the story for international consumption was that it was the neo-Nazis, and for domestic consumption, it was the Joos.
It's easy for many of us to automatically slip into cold war mode and automatically oppose anything Russia is doing.
But people need to wake up to the reality of NOW, the now where the US is no longer a force for good in the world but instead is a force for evil that is pushing it's abortionist and sodomite agenda aggressively here and abroad.
I will always stand with those who stand up to evil regardless of where they are from.
A philosophy of preventive war will bleed the nation to death. Taken to its logical conclusion we’d end up fighting two thirds of the world. Better to follow the advice of George Washington who said we should keep aloof from foreign strifes.
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