{"id":26247,"date":"2020-08-26T14:27:56","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T18:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=26247"},"modified":"2020-08-26T14:27:56","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T18:27:56","slug":"heres-bidens-very-carefully-hidden-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=26247","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s Biden&#8217;s Very Carefully Hidden Agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Rand Paul Delivers Blistering Foreign Policy Attack: &#8220;Biden Will Choose War Again&#8221;<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>Among the most notable\u00a0highlights at last night&#8217;s\u00a0Republican National Convention, Senator Rand Paul delivered a blistering take down of\u00a0Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden&#8217;s foreign policy, which Paul linked to multiple wars under Democrat administrations spanning decades (going back to Clinton&#8217;s bombing of Serbia).<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cI fear Biden will choose war again,\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0Paul\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/politics-policy\/elections\/senator-rand-paul-endorses-president-trump-praising-him-keeping-his\">asserted<\/a>.\u00a0<strong>\u201cHe supported war in Serbia, Syria, Libya. Joe Biden will continue to spill our blood and treasure. President Trump will bring our heroes home.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you hate war like I hate war,\u00a0<strong>if you want us to quit sending $50 billion every year to Afghanistan to build their roads and bridges instead of building them here at home<\/strong>, you need to support President Trump for another term,\u201d said Paul, who has long been a fierce critic of former President Obama&#8217;s foreign policy, including overt intervention in Libya, and covert action toward destabilizing Syria.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1298426809290285057&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fgeopolitical%2Frand-paul-delivers-blistering-foreign-policy-attack-biden-will-choose-war-again&amp;siteScreenName=zerohedge&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=223fc1c4%3A1596143124634&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1298426809290285057\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"ad__wrapper-element\"><\/div>\n<p>He slammed Biden as a hawk who has\u00a0<strong>\u201cconsistently called for more war\u201d\u00a0<\/strong>and<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>with no signs anything would be different.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, Sen. Paul has also in the recent past led foreign policy push back against President Trump &#8211; especially over the two times Trump has bombed Syria following alleged Assad chemical attacks, which Paul along with other anti-interventionists across the aisle like Tulsi Gabbard questioned to begin with.<\/p>\n<p>But it appears Paul is firmly supportive of Trump&#8217;s newly\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2020\/08\/24\/trumps-second-term-plan-includes-stopping-endless-wars-boosting-military-support\/\">released\u00a050-point agenda<\/a>\u00a0for his second term outlining the Commander-in-Chief will \u201cstop endless war\u201d and ultimately bring US troops \u201chome.\u201d The plan still emphasized, however, the administration will\u00a0\u201cmaintain\u201d US military strength abroad while &#8216;wiping&#8217; out global terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Trump is the first president in a generation to seek to end war rather than start one. He intends to end the war in Afghanistan. He is bringing our men and women home.\u00a0<strong>Compare President Trump with the disastrous record of Joe Biden, who has consistently called for more war<\/strong>,\u201d Paul\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/politics-policy\/elections\/senator-rand-paul-endorses-president-trump-praising-him-keeping-his\">said<\/a>\u00a0further.<\/p>\n<p><em>Back during the primaries in 2016, Paul and Trump sparred intensely over national security questions:<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"ad__wrapper-element\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-1\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-1&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1298422787120361472&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fgeopolitical%2Frand-paul-delivers-blistering-foreign-policy-attack-biden-will-choose-war-again&amp;siteScreenName=zerohedge&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=223fc1c4%3A1596143124634&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1298422787120361472\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>He also highlighted Biden&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>unrepentant yes vote to go to war in Iraq<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m supporting President Trump because he believes as I do that a strong America cannot fight endless wars. We must not continue to leave our blood and treasure in Middle East quagmires,\u201d Paul concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in the approximately four-minute speech, Paul said\u00a0Trump will\u00a0<strong>fight &#8220;socialists poisoning our schools and burning our cities.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/rand-paul-delivers-blistering-foreign-policy-attack-biden-will-choose-war-again\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/rand-paul-delivers-blistering-foreign-policy-attack-biden-will-choose-war-again<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rand Paul Delivers Blistering Foreign Policy Attack: &#8220;Biden Will Choose War Again&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}