[JayGalt]

Stupidity because Paul argues as if he could shake a wand and make a choice. We can’t pull out of those countries on a dime. We have treaties and are embedded. POTUS has started the ball rolling for the countries we protect to start paying part of the bill. In the meantime we need to have the resources to protect America.

Rand Paul often takes positions that are rational but only if you are talking about making a society from scratch. Perhaps he is a voice worth hearing but more in the sense of what we should keep in mind rather than policy that can be implemented.

[Theoria]

'We can’t pull out of those countries on a dime. We have treaties and are embedded.'

Of course we can. Contracts change all the time. Nor do we have treaties with every country that we have troops in.

This is purely foreign welfare. We simply don't have the money to keep the seas open for the Chinese, or to subsidize the shipment of oil from the ME.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Stupidity because Paul argues as if he could shake a wand and make a choice. We can’t pull out of those countries on a dime. We have treaties and are embedded. POTUS has started the ball rolling for the countries we protect to start paying part of the bill. In the meantime we need to have the resources to protect America.

Yes... but: Didn't you find it a bit strange that we slowly discovered how Obama was involving us in low level conflicts all over Africa... the same Obama who campaigned for Raoul Odinga?