Rand And Ron Disagree On ISIS

Posted by | September 17, 2014 00:21 | Filed under: Politics Top Stories War & Peace


Ron Paul is sticking to his Libertarian roots, while Rand Paul is veering away from his dad’s views on ISIS.

Ron Paul, the former Republican congressman from Texas, tells U.S. News he would “definitely not” vote to give President Barack Obama authority to wage war against the jihadi militants.

Fighting the group, he says, “will just hurt us and it will end when we go bankrupt.”

Rand Paul, the Kentucky senator and possible 2016 Republican presidential candidate, held a non-interventionist stance for much of the Syrian Civil War, but told Fox News Monday he would vote to bless Obama’s use of force after the group beheaded two American journalists…

Rand Paul made clear in a Sept. 4 editorial for Time, “I support destroying the Islamic State in Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) militarily.”

His father, famously firm in his non-interventionist beliefs, doesn’t.

“If we weren’t there nobody would be getting killed,” Ron Paul says. “If ISIS still existed without us being there, maybe [Syrian President Bashar] Assad and maybe Iran would take care of them.”…

“He speaks for himself,” Ron Paul says of his son. “I don’t speak for him. He’s his own person and he has his views.”

 

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2 responses to Rand And Ron Disagree On ISIS

  1. tiredoftea September 17th, 2014 at 00:48

    If you ever wondered what “mirroring” is, look up.

  2. tiredoftea September 17th, 2014 at 00:48

    If you ever wondered what “mirroring” is, look up.

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