re: Rand Paul Calls Hillary Clinton a 'War Hawk' in NBC Interview

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With ISIL's progress in Western Iraq, anyone saying that we should have armed the Sunni opposition in Syria will look like a fricking clown in two years. They look dumb to most with a grasp on reality now.

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No, they'll just utter the magic words of "well, there are no good solutions now, but if Nobama had just armed the moderates in 2012 then we'd be set!" That there was ever an actual force of moderates in Syria to arm (as opposed to a handful of Western-friendly officers and bureaucrats rattling the can on behalf of their less-photogenic, more-takbeery friends and setting up carefully guided tours for McCain, sup FSA) will simply be assumed. The great thing about counterfactuals is that they're not falsifiable.

Cf: Literally any article written by a neocon or liberventionist on Ukraine. "If Nobama had only acted more strongly in [NO SPECIFICS GIVEN] then Putin would never have had THE STONES to invade this country full of Russians literally next door to him!"