{"id":11548,"date":"2015-12-16T10:01:02","date_gmt":"2015-12-16T15:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/?p=11548"},"modified":"2015-12-16T10:01:02","modified_gmt":"2015-12-16T15:01:02","slug":"rand-paul-is-virtually-the-only-candidate-who-doesnt-want-to-start-world-war-iii-in-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2015\/12\/16\/rand-paul-is-virtually-the-only-candidate-who-doesnt-want-to-start-world-war-iii-in-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"Rand Paul Is Virtually the Only Candidate Who Doesn\u2019t Want to Start World War III in Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI think if you\u2019re in favor of World War III, you have your candidate,\u201d said Sen. Rand Paul during the Republican debate. He was referring to Gov. Chris Christie, but could have been talking about virtually any of the other eight people standing on the stage at The Venetian.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, only the libertarian-ish Republican senator from Kentucky was willing to admit that reckless U.S. interventionism in the Middle East\u2014cheered on by Republicans and Democrats alike\u2014gave birth to ISIS. He calmly explained that deposing Saddam Hussein in Iraq and Muammar Gadhafi in Libya created a vacuum for even worse radicals to thrive. And as Paul pointed out, if President Obama and Republican hawks had gotten their wish two years ago and deposed Bashar al-Assad, ISIS would now rule in Syria as well.<\/p>\n<p>While most of the other candidates remained staunchly anti-Russia, anti-Iran, and anti-ISIS\u2014even though the former two are unwaveringly opposed to the latter\u2014Paul was willing to criticize the recklessness of a go-to-war-with-Vladimir-Putin over nothing policy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we announce that we\u2019re going to have a no-fly zone\u2026 it\u2019s a recipe for disaster,\u201d said Paul. \u201cIt\u2019s a recipe for World War III. We don\u2019t need to confront Russia from a position of recklessness that would lead to war.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/15\/rand-paul-is-virtually-the-only-candidat\">Rand Paul Is Virtually the Only Candidate Who Doesn\u2019t Want to Start World War III in Syria &#8211; Hit &amp; Run : Reason.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI think if you\u2019re in favor of World War III, you have your candidate,\u201d said Sen. Rand Paul during the Republican debate. He was referring to Gov. Chris Christie, but could have been talking about virtually any of the other eight people standing on the stage at The Venetian. Indeed, only the libertarian-ish Republican senator from Kentucky was willing to admit that reckless U.S. interventionism in the Middle East\u2014cheered on by Republicans and Democrats alike\u2014gave birth to ISIS. He calmly explained that deposing Saddam Hussein in Iraq and Muammar Gadhafi in Libya created a vacuum for even worse radicals to thrive. And as Paul pointed out, if President Obama and Republican hawks had gotten their wish two years ago and deposed Bashar al-Assad, ISIS would now rule in Syria as well. While most of the other candidates remained staunchly anti-Russia, anti-Iran, and anti-ISIS\u2014even though the former two are unwaveringly opposed to the latter\u2014Paul was willing to criticize the recklessness of a go-to-war-with-Vladimir-Putin over nothing policy. \u201cIf we announce that we\u2019re going to have a no-fly zone\u2026 it\u2019s a recipe for disaster,\u201d said Paul. \u201cIt\u2019s a recipe for World War III. We don\u2019t need to confront Russia from a position of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[1425],"class_list":["post-11548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-politics","tag-rand-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}