read more:Cheney Pours Cold Water On Rand Paul 2016: ‘Isolationism Doesn’t Work’ [VIDEO]
by Alex Pappas
9:45 PM 06/23/2014
McLEAN, Va. — In one sentence, Vice President Dick Cheney summed up how unenthusiastic he is about Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul’s apparent aspirations to the presidency.
“I’ll leave it simply,” Cheney said in an interview with The Daily Caller on Monday at his home outside Washington. “Isolationism doesn’t work as a philosophy for defending the nation.”
“Isolationism, I think, is a flawed concept,” Cheney continued. “My disagreement with Rand Paul isn’t personal. It’s on substance. I just think he’s wrong.”
As Paul – the libertarian-leaning lawmaker who favors a more restrained foreign policy – mulls a White House bid as a Republican in 2016, Cheney — who is much more hawkish — is criticizing the Kentuckian’s views on America’s role in the world.
Cheney suggested Paul’s foreign policy is dangerous “given today’s technology” and “the ability of 19 guys with nothing more deadly than airline tickets and box cutters” to “come over here and strike the homeland in the worst attack ever on the United States of America.”
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