Reason: You mentioned in your speech that America shouldn’t fight wars when there is no plan for victory. And you’re still supporting airstrikes against ISIS. How do you visualize our plan for victory while doing airstrikes against ISIS?

Paul: I see the airstrikes really as defending vital American interests, and that would be our embassy in Baghdad as well as our consulate in Erbil. I’ve been very critical of Hillary Clinton over the last couple of years for her lack of defense for Benghazi. I do think that it is a function of our national defense and our foreign policy that when we do have embassies around the world, we do defend that presence.

Reason: But then what would be the limiting factor on that? Because we have embassies all around the world, obviously, and bad things will happen from time to time. So how do you prevent that from being a reason to launch airstrikes anytime some random group of bad guys gets within 15 miles of a place that you control?

Paul: I think actually if you look at the world, you’ll find very few of our embassies are actually under threat from war. There’s probably a list of 20 that may have some threat. Then you narrow the list down, there’s probably only I would think less than five. I would think Libya would have been one of those. [Emphasis added.]