Wacko Isolationist Rand Paul Would Seek Congressional Approval to ‘Destroy ISIS’

Sen.
Rand Paul expressed support for using U.S. military power to battle
ISIL, but only after receiving Congressional authorization.

After criticizing President Obama’s lack of a plan for dealing
with the terrorist group last Friday, Paul
told the Associated Press that the correct first move is to ask
Congress:

“If I were President, I would call a joint session of Congress.
I would lay out the reasoning of why ISIS is a threat to our
national security and seek congressional authorization to destroy
ISIS militarily.”

The Weekly Standard reported Paul’s comments while
linking to an older story in which Paul expressed “mixed feelings”
about bombing ISIL. That story ran under the very
Weekly Standard headline, “Rand
Paul Not Sure If U.S. Should Bomb Genocidal Islamist Terrorists in
Iraq.”

One gets the sense that The Weekly
Standard is pouncing on Paul’s comments as if to
say, See! Even this nutcase libertarian isolationist is
beginning to understand! But Paul’s foreign policy views
have never been as extreme as his neoconservative critics claim.
The decision to deploy American military might
should be difficult. Government leaders
should be conflicted about it. They should also obey our
Constitutional dictates, which require Congress, not the president,
to declare war.