Chris
05-09-2014, 03:49 PM
Rand Paul seems well positioned on the issue of foreign policy.
Rand Paul Should Highlight the Economic Case For Non-Interventionism (http://reason.com/archives/2014/05/09/rand-paul-should-highlight-the-economic)
Polling shows that most Americans agree with Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) when it comes to foreign policy. Much of the American public, who have endured years of deadly American military adventures overseas, believe that the United States should be less involved in the rest of the world's affairs. A recent Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll showed that 47 percent of Americans believe that the United States should be "less active" in world affairs. In December, The Pew Research Center and the Council on Foreign Relations released a poll on Americans' attitudes towards foreign policy and found that Americans are opposed to intervention more than any time in the last half century.
These results should be good news for Paul, who is widely expected to run for president in 2016 and has made a name for himself as one of the GOP's most prominent non-interventionists since being sworn in back in 2011. On the intervention in Libya, the response to the use of chemical weapons in Syria, and the crises in Ukraine and Egypt, Paul has demonstrated that he is far less keen to get the United States involved in other countries' affairs than many of his Republican colleagues. Paul's positioning on foreign policy prompted Leon Hadar to write in The American Conservative that Paul should go on the offensive and hold public meetings across the U.S. focusing on foreign policy.
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Rand Paul Should Highlight the Economic Case For Non-Interventionism (http://reason.com/archives/2014/05/09/rand-paul-should-highlight-the-economic)
Polling shows that most Americans agree with Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) when it comes to foreign policy. Much of the American public, who have endured years of deadly American military adventures overseas, believe that the United States should be less involved in the rest of the world's affairs. A recent Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll showed that 47 percent of Americans believe that the United States should be "less active" in world affairs. In December, The Pew Research Center and the Council on Foreign Relations released a poll on Americans' attitudes towards foreign policy and found that Americans are opposed to intervention more than any time in the last half century.
These results should be good news for Paul, who is widely expected to run for president in 2016 and has made a name for himself as one of the GOP's most prominent non-interventionists since being sworn in back in 2011. On the intervention in Libya, the response to the use of chemical weapons in Syria, and the crises in Ukraine and Egypt, Paul has demonstrated that he is far less keen to get the United States involved in other countries' affairs than many of his Republican colleagues. Paul's positioning on foreign policy prompted Leon Hadar to write in The American Conservative that Paul should go on the offensive and hold public meetings across the U.S. focusing on foreign policy.
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