Diplomacy is how you make deals with friends. Diplomacy is how you stop shooting at enemies who have learned that it’s a bad idea to shoot at you. Diplomacy is not for dealing with people who want to kill you and believe that they have that capability - that’s what drone strikes are for.
I can like Rand Paul until he goes hard stupid which he eventually always does.
The President’s strike is going to DEESCALATE confrontations in the Middle East? Why?
Because who has the nerve to move against an overwhelmingly superior force that will jam a missile down your throat or drone you into wet minced dogfood?
Remember this strike was retaliatory. Trump always punches back, never punches first.
If any poet general in the region dares move against Americans, they now know there will be consequences. Some will think to try but they know it won’t be easy.
So Paul, get your head out of your dark orifice and ask yourself if doing nothing militarily would have accomplished a deescalation? Of course, not. Doing nothing but talk would have signaled to terrorists that it’s open season on Americans and Westerners in general.
Idiot.
Next time consider keeping out of sight rather than join with the likes of Cavuto in a fool’s fest.
Rand Paul is one of the few “Constitutional Conservatives” around these days. He gets all sorts of hate here on FR each time, it seems, he wishes us to adhere to the Constitution, especially when it comes to “WAR”.
I don’t fault him on his position. The last “Constitutionally Declared war was in 1941, WWII. As a combat vet, it doesn’t escape me that WWII is the last war we achieved victory.
I don’t mind going to War with Iran, only if and when the nation coalesces behind a Declaration sent by Congress to the President in which it is the ultimate goal to annihilate the Iranian military and their terrorist organizations.
If we are not going “all in” in the Constitutional manner we should go “all out”. The business of “measured responses” will never succeed, imho.
I also believe “we” don’t have the national will to do what will ultimately be needed to be done. And that is the total destruction of Iran and the driving of the Islamists back into the caves of the 7th Century.
I like Rand Paul, and I appreciate his concern.
We need more like him in Senate and Congress. He isnt disagreeing with this like the others who are just disagreeing with President Trump, because that is all that they will do.
I think he is unrealistic here. We are already in a quagmire there, between failed diplomacy of Carter and sparatic but ineffective shows of strength.
President Trumps news conference on the drone strike:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1213201192647614475
All those “Death to America” and “Great Satan” rallies didn’t clue you in before this?
No. Two so-called diplomats are dead.
Rand, diplomacy in the middle east died when Jimmy Carter allowed the Iranian Thugs to take over our embassy and personnel for a year.
I’m very glad DJT is our prez., and not R.P. The guy is as off as his old man.
There's a new sheriff in town and he's doing things differently than the last bunch of appeasers in the Obama administration.
Muslims feed on weakness. The only thing they understand is strength.
President Trump is showing them strength.
Middle East diplomacy has always been by the edge of the sword.
Was diplomacy working?
Diplomacy dead? How can we tell that?
Nothing is new... Nothing is changed... Except that the U.S. is finally getting up out of the fetal position, kicking ass, and taking names...
The first diplomacy in the middle east in my lifetime was DJT getting several of those countries to vow to fight terrorism. I’m sure they are all very happy with today’s events. For the first time, real diplomacy has a chance!
A lot of people...most of them Rats and Rat sympathizers...are channeling the Peanut Farmer right now.
No loss, Iran never, lived up to their side of the negotiations.
Annnnnd right on cue here comes Stupid Rand. This is why he never will have a shot at anything higher than a senator. He can’t be counted on to literally pull the trigger.
Dear Rand
It’s time you put your big girl panties on.
Sincerely,
DJT