[plain talk]

I am not a Rand Paul guy but I agree 100% with this particular quote “So I think Qaddafi and Saddam Hussein were both secular dictators who were awful, and did terrible things to their people, but at the same time were also enemies of the jihadists. Assad is the same way. “

[Alberta's Child]

Rand Paul is too kind in his assessment. I would have been more blunt about it:

"The biggest problem the Middle East faces right now is that Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi were far better at dealing with radical Islam than George W. Bush or Barack Hussein Obama."

[entropy12]

Fact: Saddam kept Jihadists out of Iraq.
Fact: Mubarak kept Jihadists under control in Egypt.
Fact: Gadhaffi kept Jihadists under control in Libaya.

Next stupid foreign policy thrust:
Get rid of Assad in Syria.

Rand Paul is right on this. These bad dictators were/are bad people but did not send suicide bombers to United States.

[Dr. Thorne]

OK, Rand, Then why did we support the jihadis and the Muslim Brotherhood. You know the answer. Why not admit it to the American people. Or are you afraid that if you go too far, you might have a sudden heart attck, plane crash or suicide?