Thursday, September 4, 2014

BREAKING Rand Paul: ‘I Am Not an Isolationist’

Rand is a super-global meddler just like the rest. He is out with a new op-ed in TIME. Excerpts below:
If I had been in President Obama's shoes, I would have acted more decisively and strongly against ISIS...

Some pundits are surprised that I support destroying the Islamic State in Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) militarily. They shouldn’t be. I’ve said since I began public life that I am not an isolationist, nor am I an interventionist. I look at the world, and consider war, realistically and constitutionally.

Once we have decided that we have an enemy that requires destruction, we must have a comprehensive strategy—a realistic policy applying military power and skilful diplomacy to protect our national interests...

There’s no point in taking military action just for the sake of it, something Washington leaders can’t seem to understand. America has an interest in protecting more than 5,000 personnel serving at the largest American embassy in the world in northern Iraq. I am also persuaded by the plight of massacred Christians and Muslim minorities...

The military means to achieve these goals include airstrikes against ISIS targets in Iraq and Syria. Such airstrikes are the best way to suppress ISIS’s operational strength and allow allies such as the Kurds to regain a military advantage.

We should arm and aid capable and allied Kurdish fighters whose territory includes areas now under siege by the ISIS.

Since Syrian jihadists are also a threat to Israel, we should help reinforce Israel’s Iron Dome protection against missiles.

4 comments:

  1. Meanwhile TIME is calling Ron Paul his worst liability.

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  2. Looks like Rand has lost the Daily Paul. Commenters are still making excuses for him:

    http://www.dailypaul.com/325562/rand-paul-has-jumped-the-shark

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  3. Looks like Justin Raimondo is still guzzling Rand's Kool Aid

    https://mobile.twitter.com/JustinRaimondo/status/507575967183695872

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  4. Now I know Rand has got surrogates on the dole. The American Conservative now says non interventionists believe that the US government has an obligation to fix past wrongs:

    http://www.theamericanconservative.com/larison/misunderstanding-non-interventionism/

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