by digby
Senator Paul reveals his foreign policydoctrine:
Rand Paul: I'm calling for it, can't make it happen, but what I can do is withhold money from these crazy countries, if they are gonna not be supportive of us, if they are indiscriminately arming crazy/radical Islam in Syria, Libya and across the globe.
Howie Carr: Which countries would you call crazy?
“What I would say is what I just said, Howie. Do you want me to repeat myself?”
Rand Paul
RP: What I would say is..
HC: Is Jordan crazy?
RP: Jordan has been a good ally of ours, and I don't think Jordan has been fomenting or sending arms into the middle of the Syrian civil war.
HC: Saudia Arabia? Are they crazy?
RP: I wouldn't characterize it by using that word. What I would say ...
HC: But that was your word.
RP: Yeah … I would say in this instance, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Kuwait have all sent arms indiscriminately into the Syrian civil war and many of the arms have ended up in the hands of ISIS, even American arms have landed in the hands of ISIS. And we need to let our allies in the region know this is unacceptable, and we will no longer be giving arms, selling arms, or giving money to them if they behave this way.
HC: So are Qatar and Kuwait crazy?
RP: What I would say is what I just said, Howie. Do you want me to repeat myself?
HC: No I'm just saying, you went out kind of on a limb with the word crazy.
RP: Unacceptable is a better word to use there, Howie.
What we need to do is tell our close allies that being crazy is "unacceptable." That ought to do it.
This is reminiscent of the highly sophisticated McCain Doctrine:
"One of the things I would do if I were President would be to sit the Shiites and the Sunnis down and say, ‘Stop the bullshit'"
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