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  • Non-interventionist. Often uses the word “empire” to describe U.S. engagements abroad.
  • Supports withdrawal from UN and NATO. Opposes all foreign aid. Opposes resolutions that presume to advise foreign government how to run their affairs.
  • Refused to condemn Mugabe’s violence against Zimbabwean citizens, to call on Vietnam to release political prisoner or to ask the League of Arab States to help stop the killing in Darfur.
  • Defended Israel’s right to bomb Iraq’s Isirak nuclear plant in 1981
  • After 9-11, Paul supported the authority and funding to go after Osama bin Laden. He has since regretted the vote because he believes the money was misspent –
  • “What I did not support was going into nation-building and the occupation of two Muslim countries, and then allowing bin Laden to go into Pakistan – a country hat is our ally and we send money to.” (American Prospect 6/11)
  • In a speech entitled “Neo-CONNED!” which he delivered in the House in July 2003, Paul said, “In spite of the floundering economy, Congress and the [Bush] administration continue to take on new commitments in foreign aid, education, farming, medicine, multiple efforts at nation building, and preemptive wars around the world.”
  • Speech here: http://www.house.gov/paul/congrec/congrec2003/cr071003.htm