Rand is going to support the nomination of interventionist war hawk Mike Pompeo to be the next Secretary of State.
I just finished speaking to @realDonaldTrump, after speaking to him several times today. I also met with and spoke to Director Pompeo.— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) April 23, 2018
After calling continuously for weeks for Director Pompeo to support President Trump’s belief that the Iraq war was a mistake, and that it is time to leave Afghanistan, today I received confirmation the Director Pompeo agrees with @realDonaldTrump— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) April 23, 2018
President Trump believes that Iraq was a mistake, that regime change has destabilized the region, and that we must end our involvement with Afghanistan.— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) April 23, 2018
Having received assurances from President Trump and Director Pompeo that he agrees with the President on these important issues, I have decided to support his nomination to be our next Secretary of State.— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) April 23, 2018
Mike Pompeo quotes:
Legal and bureaucratic impediments to surveillance should be removed.
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Edward Snowden should be brought back from Russia and given due process. And I think the proper outcome would be that he would be given a death sentence.
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We have to get rid of ISIS, have to get rid of ISIS. We have no choice.
.-Robert Wenzel
From 5 days ago:
ReplyDelete“I will say this about Rand Paul: He’s never let me down,” Trump said. “Rand Paul is a very special guy, as far as I’m concerned. He’s never let me down. And I don’t think he’ll let us down again. So let’s see what happens.”
He noted Paul ultimately voted for a Senate health care bill “and he did us a big favor. It was somebody else that voted against it that hurt us. So I have a lot of confidence in Rand, but I also have a great deal of confidence in Mike Pompeo."
http://www.miamiherald.com/article209332434.html
I'm speechless.
ReplyDeleteWhat does Rand expect to gain through this? Is there any reason to believe the promises of Donald Trump or Mike Pompeo?
The only way I could ever excuse a move like this is if we see an immediate, drastic change in foreign policy under Pompeo towards disengagement and a full withdrawal of troops from the middle east.
It doesn't matter if a hawk acknowledges the folly of past wars if they don't learn any lessons from them. These hawks have the next three regime-change wars lined up.
Well... He caved. One may think that the Stable Genius promised Rand something Rand liked or simply that Rand no longer coukd discern a political advantage in resisting the president's choice, for the current makeup of Trump's voters are anything but principled libertarians or even constitutionalists but rather the same type of envy-filled mediocrities that would find a cozy home in the victimhood-centered left if the left stopped calling them 'idiots'.
ReplyDeleteThis is the same Senator that voted to confirm US AG Jeff Sessions, whose policies RE civil forfeiture, the drug war, etc. are diametrically opposed to his. Yet he voted Party anyway. And you're surprised by this latest development?
ReplyDeleteI'm not really all that surprised by this. Rand and the other senators and congressmen on the hill either don't know or don't care about the principles of liberty and freedom.
ReplyDeleteGood strategy right here. Don't pick fights that don't matter and you can't win.
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