"Rand Paul’s fake foreign policy"

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Rand Paul’s fake foreign policy

By Jennifer Rubin at the Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2014/03/10/rand-pauls-fake-foreign-policy/

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Hypocrisy is the compliment vice pays to virtue, I suppose. It is fair, then, to say that Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) posturing as a Reaganite on foreign policy goes beyond hypocrisy to downright fabrication.

Recall that an essential part of Paul’s libertarian shtick was a foreign policy “less aggressive” than the Republicans’. He was going to “nation build” in Detroit, he once said, as opposed to funding foreign allies or the Pentagon.

Now that the world has blown up, Iran is striding toward a nuclear weapon and Russia is lumbering through Ukraine, he wants us to believe, as he said on Sunday, that he is in the mainstream of the GOP and in the vein of Ronald Reagan. This is nonsense on steroids.

The mainstream GOP — in fact, 77 U.S. senators and 43 of 45 Republicans — thinks the president’s Iran negotiations are misguided and destined to end in failure so long as sanctions are relaxed and no new sanctions await Iran if the talks don’t lead to a final agreement. Not Paul. He is aligned with President Obama, not the Republicans





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1. Coming from Rubin, this is kind of fun. (nt)

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2. Right.. funny Rubin is pointing out Rand Paul fucking hypocrisy..

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