Rand's foreign policy in indistinguishable from Obama's and that is one reason he'll never be the GOP nominee.
I have to respectfully disagree with you. I think Rand would make an outstanding commander-in-chief!
Obama took us into Syria and Rand was against that.. so was President Trump!
We can deploy anywhere around the world from america in a few hours. We have orbital weapons and other tech to handle the rest. Having troops on the ground in the me is a long dead idea. We are going bankrupt, things need cutting. SA, China and the rest can stand up now.
“We need a base of operation in the middle east, not only to combat terrorism that threatens national security but also if there ends up being a bigger war at some point.”
Nope. A this point our presence there CAUSES the wars. And besides, if we can’t force our way into any middle east nation we choose, we should just go ahead and disband the USN and USMC.
They have ZERO capability to prevent our entry anytime we please.