Whenever discussion has turned to Rand Paul here or elsewhere, I've maintained that I wanted to be assured of daylight between his foreign-policy views and those of his father.
Alas, as Quin Hillyer shows in his piece at NRO today, there isn't an appreciable degree of such. Rand has on various occasions demonstrated ideological kinship with the likes of Pat Buchanan and Cindy Sheehan. Called Dick Cheney a war profiteer. Attempted to equate advocacy for defense budgets sufficient for projecting global power as we have since 1945 as a zeal for preemption. Is on record as saying a nuclear Iran could be contained. "[A]ctually compared the remarkably humane American facility for terrorists at Guantanamo Bay to the American mistreatment of blacks and Japanese." Pooh-pooed the idea that jihadists were inside the US plotting terror.
He's another one of those frustrating libertarians who is so spot-on when it comes to economics and completely out to lunch on world-affairs issues. He even hews fairly traditional on "social issues." (I'm not real fond of that term.)
And so let's keep him where he is, where his Senate votes will further the cause of economic freedom but aren't likely to affect America's global role.
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