Posted on June 15, 2013

Rand Paul: Neoconservatives Misinterpret Reagan's "Peace Through Strength" As "War Through Strength"

SEN. RAND PAUL: I would say that if you look at him in regard to involvement. I would say that he was in some ways more restrained than presidents before or after him, as far as direct military involvement. When we were in Lebanon and we had the Marines there, he actually made the decision to come home because he said it was too murky and they couldn't find out -- and it wasn't a safe way to have them in there.



It goes forward to like Benghazi now. Was it safe to have an embassy there? Was it safe to have an embassy under State Department control? Was it safe to stay there when all your military support was saying we need more security and it was denied? So, I think that Reagan really exemplified peace through strength. But I think that some of the neoconservatives up here interpret that as war through strength and that war is always the option, that we always have to be involved. Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson, Hoover Institution, June 14, 2013)



(via MFP)