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10-31-2014, 11:12 AM
From World War I to Rand Paul
The rise and fall and rise of America’s anti-war right
by Zack Beauchamp on October 28, 2014
What does Rand Paul believe? His recent foreign policy address, a thinly veiled audition for his 2016 presidential candidacy, made one thing plain: Paul wants to scale back American involvement in foreign wars. To understand why, you have to understand where his ideas come from. Paul is the heir to a tradition, dating at least back to the 1890s, of conservative non-interventionism: the idea that it is not America's place to be involved in the affairs of the world. The history of this movement is complicated. So I spoke to Daniel McCarthy, editor of prominent non-interventionist magazine The American Conservative, about the non-interventionist movement's history — and its influence on Paul.
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http://www.vox.com/2014/10/28/7022003/rand-paul-non-interventionism-daniel-mccarthy
The rise and fall and rise of America’s anti-war right
by Zack Beauchamp on October 28, 2014
What does Rand Paul believe? His recent foreign policy address, a thinly veiled audition for his 2016 presidential candidacy, made one thing plain: Paul wants to scale back American involvement in foreign wars. To understand why, you have to understand where his ideas come from. Paul is the heir to a tradition, dating at least back to the 1890s, of conservative non-interventionism: the idea that it is not America's place to be involved in the affairs of the world. The history of this movement is complicated. So I spoke to Daniel McCarthy, editor of prominent non-interventionist magazine The American Conservative, about the non-interventionist movement's history — and its influence on Paul.
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read more:
http://www.vox.com/2014/10/28/7022003/rand-paul-non-interventionism-daniel-mccarthy