Quote of the Day

“We went into Libya and we got rid of that terrible Qaddafi, now it’s a jihadist wonderland over there. There’s jihadists everywhere. If we were to get rid of Assad it would be a jihadist wonderland in Syria. It’s now a jihadist wonderland in Iraq, precisely because we got over-involved.”

— Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), quoted by Huffington Post.

First Read: “We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), if he runs for president, could very well be the most interesting story in 2015. And it will center on challenging the GOP’s traditionally hawkish foreign-policy/national-security positions – a debate that really hasn’t happened inside the party since the Bush years.”