{"id":56653,"date":"2014-11-25T08:00:55","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T13:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=56653"},"modified":"2014-11-24T14:43:10","modified_gmt":"2014-11-24T19:43:10","slug":"rand-paul-wants-boots-on-the-ground-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=56653","title":{"rendered":"Rand Paul wants boots on the ground in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rand Paul is probably one of the leading contenders at this point for the Republican nomination and the New York Times<\/a> reports that he wants a declaration of war against ISIS and he wants to put boots on the ground. Yeah, he’ll go without me because of the restrictions he wants to place on the operation;<\/p>\n

Mr. Paul…offered a very circumscribed definition of war in his proposal, which he outlined in an interview on Saturday. He would, for instance, limit the duration of military action to one year and significantly restrict the use of ground forces.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I guess no one noticed how poorly those “time line withdrawals” work.<\/p>\n

Mr. Paul faces doubts within the Republican Party, particularly among those who take a more traditional interventionist approach, that he is trustworthy on matters of national security and defense. He has sought to shake the \u201cisolationist\u201d label that he believes is unfairly attached to him because of the noninterventionist views of his father, Ron Paul.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Unfairly? We used to have a video posted on this blog, until it mysteriously disappeared a few years ago in which Rand Paul endorsed local madman and IVAW\/Code Pink member, Adam Kokesh for Congress. That was in 2010. And now he wants to fight ISIS while putting absurd limits on the troops and he wants to fight ISIS hoping they’ll agree to be defeated within a year. OK, it’s not quite isolationist, but it’s as close as he can get without getting both feet wet in it. <\/p>\n

That’s why Senators make poor executives. They make decisions that are so spineless, we’re better off if they’d make no decisions at all. The country needs a leader, from either party, not another fellow who wants to make everyone happy. A leader makes a decision and then convinces everyone that he’s right. That’s not what Paul is doing here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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