Senator Rand Paul stated Tuesday that he will ask Tony Blinken, Joe Biden’s pick for secretary of state, to apologize for supporting the war in Iraq.
“On foreign policy, I am very worried that there will be a big shift, and it’s back to those who believe that we should militarily intervene abroad in a big way,” Paul said during a Fox News interview.
“You have neoconservatives on the right who want to intervene for geopolitical reasons, but then you have liberals, like Blinken and Samantha Power and others, who want to intervene for ‘humanitarian’ reasons,” Paul added.
“They want to send our armies and our young men and women around the world. And I think Blinken is a bad choice,” Paul asserted, before noting that Blinken even supported the war in Iraq.
“I’m going to ask him if he’s going to apologize for his support of the Iraq War and what lessons he learned from it, whether he still believes regime change in the Middle East is a good idea, which it was not a good idea. It was not a good idea in Libya either or in Syria,” Paul emphasised.
“I don’t think Biden or Blinken have really fully understood that. And I actually do think President Trump really did get that, that regime change in the Middle East hasn’t made us stronger,” Paul said.
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While Blinken is being hailed by some legacy media outlets as something akin to the second coming, others have pointed out that he is a dyed in the wool globalist.
Joe Biden set to appoint another compromised SIMP for China. Imagine my shock. pic.twitter.com/8bjvKDzCQn
— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) November 23, 2020
Because Hillary's foreign policy of invading Libya worked out so well. What a vote of confidence. https://t.co/KyLGxadIuA
— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) November 23, 2020
