Republican presidential Rand Paul's foreign policy speech views on war Candidate
While the Republican presidential hopeful said he would not support ‘frivolous’ wars, he also won’t shy away from defending the US against ‘radical Islam’ “I see an America strong, strong enough to deter foreign aggression, yet wise enough to avoid unnecessary intervention,” the Kentucky senator told the audience in South Carolina . ut it positioned Paul as an aggressive advocate of an America that rejects “frivolous” wars, unsubtly if subliminally attacking his rivals – most notably, South Carolina’s own ultra-hawkish senator Lindsey Graham, and likely Democratic candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton – and sounding reminiscent of Barack Obama’s milestone 2002 speech rejecting “dumb wars” like Iraq. The obligations of commander-in-chief, Paul said, “should never be given to any individual who frivolously or cavalierly calls for war”. Both Graham and Clinton supported the 2003 Iraq war, and the rest of the Republican field has reacted with skepticism to Obama’s diplo...