I read that and thought UT OH, RP is going to be chewed up and spit out, oh and he sounds more like his dad by the minute.
Rand hints that he is as nutty has his Dad.
Peace through Strength always works.
Either Rand doesn’t own a calendar or he has been over to his daddy’s house for some anti-American. Right now, is not the time to start trying to get Obama reelected. It’s just too important that Obama not have 4 more years and appoint several Justices.
If Rand has any interest in debating this he should have either taken it up before Romney’s nomination or bring it up after the election.
first this is not the time to start this crap with an election so near and secondly I hope Rand is not going to go the same nutty way as his father and this is just a blip.
I feared that that Paul would eventually start to show a family nutcase heritage.
Starting to sound like his looney old man in some ways though.
Rand, ike Ron, is from the “If we eave them aone, they wil leave us alone” school of thought. The naivete regarding radical Islam and communism is breathtaking.
Agreed. If the USA intervened in Syria - do we even know whose side we would be on? Assad is looking better every day compared to Egypt and especially Libya. Let Syria fight Turkey fight Iran fight Saudi Arabia.
If the USA declines, it is because we are our Government and the Federal Reserve are bankrupting the citizens, and debasing our currency.
I agree.
I do not, however, support a call for intervention in Syria.
I'm with Rand maybe 60%. Open intervention is not called for. Under-the-table intervening in Syria just to put Muslim Brotherhood or some Al Qaeda proxy in the palace is a mistake.
No president, Republican or Democrat, has the unilateral power to take our nation to war without the authority of the legislature.
I agree. In any case, open intervention is a mistake.
Whatever mid east disagreements I fear I have with Sen. Paul, he is right as rain in warning not to get involved in Syria’s civil war. It will backfire on us as bad or worse than it has in Libya.
The nut never falls very far from the tree.
This is the son of a man who blames the US for the attacks on 9/11 through “blowback.”
Just a republican doing a democrats work for them....Republicans need to shut up until after the election...This guy must love Obama, he’s in the wrong party...
Again, not one word has been mentioned so far of the jihad that is being weighed against America but it is only the economy that is continuously in the limelight.
Don’t these guys know that when sharia is established that all their economic planning is like p*ssing in the wind?
Rand Paul is no less of a loon than his drooling dad.
27 days before the election and this dipstick thinks it’s his turn to be heard.... he’s an idiot!
Rand Paul is no less of a loon than his drooling dad.
27 days before the election and this dipstick thinks it’s his turn to be heard.... he’s an idiot!
“Damning with faint praise”.
Rand is right.
We have no real allies to back in Syria.
The “opposition” is in reality the culmination of (a) a decade long secret U.S. State/Cia program to work for “regime change” in Syria, working predominately thru U.S. foundations and NGOs, funded by U.S. “one/new world” types (b) Saudi funding of it’s own on that same track, (b) the Muslim Brotherhood carrying most of the operational water inside Syria.
It is foolhardy for the U.S. to believe that it has any real long term interests in Wahabi-Saudi fundamentalism or the Muslim brotherhood.
That’s a sad but true state pf where Syria is headed if the “opposition” succeeds - deeper into the hands of the Wahabi fundamentalists and the Muslim Brotherhood.
It will be no different than how we helped fund the Mujadhadeen to oppose the Soviets, using anothe alliance of convenience with the Saudis and the Islamist government of Pakisan. We got a strengthened Al Queda and a Taliban dominated Afghanistan.
In all of this the U.S. government’s foreign policy has in effect been a tool of Middle East interests that are not in reality “allies” of ours.
Malaki in Iraq keeps moving closer to Iran and refusing to forcefully go after Iranian backed terrorists in Iraq.
Karzai will make a deal with the Taliban to “share power” in some fashion after we pull out, on the misguided supposition that it will be a path to peace. If it produces any peace it will be short lived as the Taliban use the legitimacy of being part of the government as a mere stepping stone to dominating again.
Romney is wrong if he thinks additional American deaths in the Middle East will be seen as a projection of American power and will, because minus a World War II style total war agenda for total victory, there is no mission worth supporting in Afghanistan; and there is no American public support for conducting ourselves that way over there.
He does realize that we're setting up base just north of Amman, Jordan already...right? Syria is going to fall to al-queda and what is at stake in Syria? A known pile of WDMs.
The problem as I see it is not so much about not getting involved in Syria as it is about being on the wrong side of this thing. And that ....that is the 0bama error.
This leaves Romney with either supporting Assad or al-queda. Personally if I were President and we're so concerned over these WMD's? Get the 'damn' intel from Israel and bomb the depots and storage facilities to oblivion. Then let them sort out their civil war.