???????????????? This really smacks of his nutball father’s concept of American Isolationism.....
War? Who the hell are we gonna go to war with under this Oresident? Exactly Nobody. This includes North Korea.
If anything, the only war being seriously planned here is the Oresident’s war on traditonal America.
Give me a break.
Paul’s statements (as reported) seem a little oily.
Why doesn’t he just say out loud WHY he thinks Republicans and evangelicals are “too eager” for war?
Bad week for a speech Paul.
You could have said this on any other week, and it would make sense.
Right now you’re just being melodramatic.
Unfortunate but true although I don’t get why he points to evangelicals.
What a stupid thing to say. He sounds like Code Pink
We can't and should not be the world's police.
War does one thing and that’s line the politicians’ wallets.
Boy, this guy is fading fast.
The prerequisite of political legitimacy today is to attack Christians— whether you are Republican or Democrat.
Code Pink strongly supported Rand Paul in his filibuster.
His dad said Chris Kyle got what’s going around by fighting in a war.
The libertarians are not our friend.
They coyly allow the government intrude in marriage and the life of the unborn to curry favor with the radical left.
I am not fooled.
The failure to defend the good work of our soldiers in places like Iraq speaks volume about character.
It would have been great to see republicans go to war against liberals over the past three decades instead of attempting to emulate them into submission.
To him ‘eagar’ is prudent to the rest of us. When someone breaks into your house, you don’t wait to see what they feel about you or if you accidentally kicked their kitten a decade before.
Evangelicals? Eager for war? Not any that I know of.
Paul could point out the McCain/Graham crowd. Call them out. By name. They’re nuts. They want to get mired in every hellhole that pops up. But this broad brush Paul is using makes him sound like a crackpot.
C’mon folks another war to benefit some other country will probably be the end of us. We are now teetering on the brink of economic collapse. Look at England, after centuries of war they are a basket case.
We spent the first half of the last century fighting in Europe, the second half fighting in Asia. This century has started with the ME and Africa and our minds are being turned to South America. War hawks want us to save women, oil, Israel, South Korea, Formosa, you name it.
No war without a formal declaration of war from Congress and then add in the taxes to pay for it and a draft to fight it.
An unnecessary and I think pointless attack on Christians. If he wants a more isolationist foreign policy, fine. A lot of people will agree with him in theory (though a lot of theories die in the first week you are in the White House). But the attack on Christians has an odd ring to it.
Paul is finding a way to get a Republican nomination and sell himself as electable (drawing in left wing voters) on the basis of being anti-war.
Krauthammer and Kristol are the modern embodiment of the Nixon-Kissinger crowd that oversaw no-win conflicts like Vietnam and cut deals with China and the Soviets in the 1970’s.
I’m not a left-wing anti-war guy, I want to win wars.
We need to find the enemy in Pakistan and take them out.
Krauthammers and Kristols like the Kissingers before them don’t.
But maybe we can do Orwell one better: we can be at war with both the Eurasians and the East Asians!
I'm so glad that we Americans have become comfortable with our crony capitalist, quasi-fascist economy. It is the perfect complement to our neoconservative foreign policy.