Rand Paul Blasts Neocon Liz Cheney for Urging President Trump to Keep Troops in Afghanistan
Shane Trejo
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Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) is standing up for President Donald Trump’s “America First” foreign policy against neocons in the Republican Party who desire to go back to the George W. Bush era.
Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), daughter of former Vice President and Iraq War architect Dick Cheney, made an appearance on Fox News’ “The Daily Briefing” on Tuesday where she argued for Trump to keep troops in Afghanistan.
“We know what happens when we walk away,” she said. “We are now in a situation where we’ve got a sufficient number of troops on the ground to prevent safe havens and people have got to remember that Afghanistan is a place from which the terrorists planned and plotted and trained and attacked us on 9/11 — We cannot let that happen again.”
Cheney’s words come shortly after the release of the Afghanistan Papers, which showed that bureaucrats in Washington D.C. deliberately misled the public about progress in the mountainous arid nation commonly referred to as the “graveyard of empires” to do public relations for the war operation.
Even though it is now widely understood that top military officials see no chance at victory in Afghanistan, Cheney wants troops to remain over there to continue spilling their blood needlessly. Paul finds this to be completely unacceptable.
“I think the Cheneys are unrepentant warmongers. They still won’t admit that the Iraq War was a mistake,” Paul said.
“What they need to realize that when we topple regimes — when we topple strongmen that may not be the best of leaders — what we get is a vacuum and we get more terrorism. So ostensibly, they want to go overseas to fight them over there and to wipe out terrorism, but it turns out we go over there and we end up having chaos when we depose regimes and have no government,” he added.
After all the damage that their policies have caused to America, Paul believes that the Cheneys should quit while they are behind and remove themselves from public life permanently.
“America needs to quit listening to them. They need to fade into obscurity,” he said.
Although President Trump is far from a non-interventionist, his foreign policy mindset is much closer to Paul’s than it is to Cheney’s. He has talked about the futility of the wars in the Middle East on many occasions, and indicated that he wants to bring the troops home.
“You know, we’re in many countries, many, many countries. I–I’m embarrassed to tell you how many. I know the exact number, but I’m embarrassed to say it because it’s so foolish. We’re in countries–we’re protecting countries that don’t even like us. They take advantage of us. They don’t pay; nothing,” Trump said in October.
Neocons like Cheney, by working incessantly to undermine Trump’s foreign policy, do a great disservice to the President’s “America First” agenda.
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