Posted on 01/03/2020 2:50:37 PM PST by RandFan
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., called into "Your World with Neil Cavuto" Friday to discuss the deadly airstrike that killed Iranian general Qassem Soleimani in Iraq, saying he fears an "escalation" between the U.S. and Iran.
"I think without a declaration of war, without Congress and the American people behind it, what you get is a messy mission. You get a mission of escalating intermittent violence," Paul told Cavuto. "The president said he didn't want perpetual war in the Middle East. But he's adding more and more troops. If you don't want perpetual war, you don't keep sending more targets over there."
Paul believes it is more likely that "Iran, their militias and their proxies will attack the U.S." following the death of Soleimani.
President Trump accused the Iranian general of planning “imminent and sinister attacks” Friday in his first televised remarks since the airstrike that killed the general at Baghdad's international airport.
"We took action last night to stop a war,” Trump said during brief remarks at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. “We did not take action to start a war.”
Paul argued that that the airstrike signals the "death of diplomacy" with Iran and that they will feel the need to retaliate.
"It's hard to imagine that the Iranians are going to shrink now and say, 'Oh, you killed our leading general, who's been a leader in our country for 20 years, and we're going to do nothing,'" Paul said. "I also think with the death of Soleimani, you have the death of diplomacy. I don't think there's any chance that Iran will speak to us again on diplomacy."
Cavuto asked Paul what his "biggest fear" was about the situation.
"I think, that there will be an escalation, that there will be a war with Iran," Paul responded.
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It’s been like this for 50 years.
It’s been dead for awhile and the naive fools are finally waking up to the reality.
GTFO Rand, your neighborhood sucks too
and you couldn’t get the kook who attacked
you locked up
Gee Rand have you just figured that out, it’s been dead for decades.
Because years of appeasement worked so well, right Rand?
As practiced by our State(less) Dept, diplomacy has been dead for quite a long time.
Maybe Trump can undo some of that insane damage Obama did by giving them all that money
I despise that punk.
We CGOs were saying that sitting in the mess hall at some forsaken out post near Riyadh in 1990
What a maroon!!
such a little wuss wuss
Diplomacy is a two-way street. We haven’t had that in decades.
You can’t have diplomacy with liars.
Rand hopes there will be escalation, and the US will sustain huge casualties, so he can run again in 2024 and fulfill Ron’s hopes that the ostrich will replace the eagle as the national bird. I expect he’ll be wrong, simply because Iran is literally weak and can’t afford to take a lot of damage. It’s obvious from Rand’s rhetoric that the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.
Turn and run Rand Paul. To do nothing would have only caused one-sided escalation in itself. However, if this does cause further escalation, then President Trump should go before Congress and ask for a Declaration of War against Iran. If they refuse, then escalation becomes their doing, not President Trump’s. If they do execute a Declaration of War with Iran then we can bomb the living poop out of the Ayatollah’s.
Why is John Kerry not in prison?
RP is good for a crazy take a few times a year. Cavuto knew it was coming which is exactly why he had Paul on
“Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead.”
[GTFO Rand, your neighborhood sucks too
and you couldn’t get the kook who attacked
you locked up]
he thought diplomacy was ever a thing in the me? whooo!
You and the Dems are not helping
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