Jacob Sullum on Rand Paul vs. the Hawks

In an interview with The New
York Times last month, President Obama confessed that
when he decided to help rebels overthrow Libyan dictator Muammar
al-Qaddafi in 2011, he “underestimated” the ensuing chaos. “That’s
a lesson that I now apply every time I ask the question, ‘Should we
intervene militarily?'” Obama said. “Do we have an answer [for] the
day after?”

Jacob Sullum says it would be nice to have a president who looks
before he leaps into other countries’ civil wars, who learns from
his predecessors’ foreign policy blunders instead of his own.
Sullum argues that Rand Paul, who offers a refreshing contrast to
the reckless interventionists of both major parties, might be that
man.

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