Libertarian Republican reports on a
foreign policy speech by Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul this week:
Senator Rand Paul detailed his views on
diplomacy Tuesday in a speech before the Center
for the National Interest…..The US, he said, should employ
trade and diplomacy whenever possible while scaling back overseas
police action…
The Senator criticized neoconservatives for having forsaken this
tradition, arguing that they really promote “not a neoconservatism
but a neoisolationism in which diplomacy is distrusted and war is,
if not the first option, the preferred option.”“Neoconservatives brag of their desire for engagement, but
increasingly preach a doctrine that is hostile to diplomatic
engagement,” said Paul. “To this crowd, everyone who doesn’t agree
with them is the next Chamberlain. To this crowd, anyone who
doesn’t clamor first for the military option is somehow an
isolationist. The irony is that the crowd that claims they want to
engage often opposes diplomatic engagement.”
Funny because it’s true! I wrote in September a compare
and contrast of
Obama’s foreign policy vision and Paul’s, in the context
of Syria.
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