Kentucky senator Rand Paul says the “hawks” in the Republican party helped create and grow the Islamic State terrorist group. Paul, who is running for president, appeared Wednesday morning on MSNBC, where host Joe Scarborough asked him about fellow senator Lindsey Graham’s own likely White House bid.
“Graham would say ISIS exists because of people like Rand Paul who said, ‘Let’s not go into Syria.’ What do you say to Lindsey?” said Scarborough.
“I would say it’s exactly the opposite. ISIS exists and grew stronger because of the hawks in our party who gave arms indiscriminately, and most of those arms were snatched up by ISIS,” said Paul. “These hawks also wanted to bomb Assad, which would have made ISIS’s job even easier. They created these people.”
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Paul also criticized his fellow Republicans for supporting “Hillary’s war in Libya” and just wanting “more of it.”
“Everything that they’ve talked about in foreign policy, they’ve been wrong about for twenty years,” Paul said. “And yet they have somehow the gall to keep saying and pointing fingers otherwise.”
