Politics

Is Rand Paul a Secret Hawk? Or Maybe Not a Total Dove?

Birds of a Feather?

The Republicans’ most visible isolationist is now being advised by a life-long interventionist. What gives?

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Mark Peterson/Redux

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul is the Republican party’s most visible dove and skeptic of foreign intervention. So it raised more than a few eyebrows when he added to his nascent presidential campaign a long-time foreign policy hand who has spent years intervening in other countries’ affairs and is associated with...

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