Rand Paul on ISIS: 'Intervention Created This Chaos'

[WestVirginiaRebel]

National Journal:

September 18, 2014 Rand Paul ramped up his rhetoric Thursday on the Senate floor, forcefully repeating his view that the United States government should not arm and train Syrian rebels in the fight against the Islamic State.

 

This time, however, he took it a step further, saying that arming the Free Syrian Army could have devastating consequences for Israel.

 

"There is not one of those jihadists," he told his fellow senators, "not one of those so-called moderate rebels that will recognize Israel. And if they win, they will attack Israel next."

 

He also took the opportunity to assert his broader views on foreign policy, which critics say have endured flip-flopping over the last few months. Paul criticized both the Bush and Obama administrations for interventionist tendencies, blaming the rise of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria on past meddling in the Middle East. Intervention, he said, "toppled secular dictators," leading to the radical jihadist groups of today in places like Libya.

 

"When does a track record of being consistently wrong stop you from being a so-called expert when the next crisis comes up?" Paul questioned. "We should remember that they were wrong. There were no WMDs, that Hussein, Qadhafi, and Assad were not a threat to us. Doesn't make them good, but they were not a threat to us."

 

In a possible dig at John McCain, he alluded to a falsehood he's brought up before: that the Arizona senator may have been cozy with future ISIS members.

 

"Intervention created this chaos," he said. "To those who wish unlimited intervention and boots on the ground everywhere, remember the smiling poses of politicians pontificating about so-called freedom fighters and heroes in Libya, in Syria, and in Iraq. Unaware that the so-called freedom fighters may well have been allied with kidnappers and are killers and jihadists."

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Don't make Rand Paul angry. You wouldn't like him when he's angry...

 

[Cyber_Liberty]

What, does he turn into his Pop?

[Valin]

 

 

There were no WMDs

 

Yet one more reason to not support Rand in 2016. He's his fathers son.