In Defense of Rand Paul's Foreign Policy - by Bruce Fein

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[Brian4Liberty]

The article is mostly a rebuttal to a David Brooks piece where he calls for the US to be the world's gardener, weeding out the "bad" guys...

Here's a summary of the Rand mentions:

Writing in The New York Times on May 30, 2014, columnist David Brooks launched a clumsy preemptive attack on Senator Rand Paul's foreign policy in hopes of derailing his presidential ambitions.
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Reminiscent of the fictitious domino theory and missile and bomber gaps that fueled the Cold War and underwrote the military-industrial complex, Brooks hallucinates about the probable catastrophes that will ensue if the United States neglects to strangle autocracies in their pre-embryonic stages with military force or sister interventions. He delivers a high octave warning that, "[I]f [the United States] neglects constant garden-tending, the [autocratic] thugs will grab and grab and eventually there will be horrendous conflagrations...The autocrats will drag the world into an ungodly mess."

In sum, Brooks perfectly reflects the psychology of Empire featuring logarithmic exaggeration of external threats to justify perpetual objectless wars that promise to culminate in self-ruination. At present, Senator Rand Paul is the only antidote for this life-threatening disease.
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[Brian4Liberty]

The original David Brooks article:

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthr...t-war-as-usual