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U.S. foreign policy is a bipartisan fiasco. President George W. Bush gave the American people Iraq, the gift that keeps on giving. President Barack Obama is a slightly more reluctant warrior, but he is taking the country back into Iraq.

Hillary Clinton, the unannounced Democratic front-runner for 2016, supported her husbands misbegotten attempt at nation-building in Kosovo and led the drive for war in Libya, which is unraveling. Most of Clintons potential GOP opponents share Washingtons bomb, invade, and occupy consensus.

The only exception is Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul. He stands alone advocating a foreign policy which reflects the bitter, bloody lessons of recent years.

The Islamic State of Syria and the Levant is the latest result of Washingtons incessant and counterproductive meddling in the Middle East. Nowhere has U.S. policy been more disastrous.

But the usual suspects are calling for more intervention, more war. This time, they promise, everything will go well.

This is the Obama administrations position in Iraq and Syria. However, Hillary Clinton has begun maneuvering for 2016 by running to Obamas right.

She consistently promoted a militarist policy in the Balkans and Middle East. She took a hawkish position on virtually every issue within the Obama administration. While she mocked the presidents mantra of Dont do stupid stuff, she spent her career doing just that.

Instead of offering an alternative, leading Republicans are all in for war, more war, forever war. The dual donkeys of the apocalypse, Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham, naturally have been advocating that America intervene more in both Syria and Iraq.

Most plausible Republican candidates are running toward the interventionist sideline. They blame Obama for Iraq, even though it was George W. Bush who invaded that nation and failed to win Iraqi approval for a permanent U.S. garrison.

New Jerseys Gov. Chris Christie has ostentatiously joined the most hawkish GOP elements.

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Can Rand Paul defeat neocon Hillary?

By Ashley Killough, CNN

updated 2:56 PM EDT, Wed September 3, 2014

Sen. Rand Paul will make his third trip to New Hampshire since May 2013.

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

(CNN) -- Sen. Rand Paul returns to New Hampshire next week, making his third visit to the first-in-the-nation primary state as he prepares for a possible presidential run in 2016.

The Kentucky Republican will appear at a Manchester event on September 11 that's hosted by Generation Opportunity, a libertarian-minded advocacy group for millennials.

Billed as the "First in the Nation Freedom Event," the event takes place at the World Sports Grill.

The next morning Paul plans to attend a New Hampshire GOP breakfast with Sen. Kelly Ayotte, a fellow first-term senator.

Paul was last in New Hampshire in April, in part to speak at a summit hosted by Americans for Prosperity, which is backed by the Koch brothers. He previously went there in May 2013 for an event with Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus.

The senator's upcoming trip was first reported by Politico.

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Rand Paul to head back to New Hampshire

A member of Sen. Ted Cruz's (R-Tex.) family was in the news again Tuesday. Unfortunately for the senator, it was not his two adorable daughters, made famous when he read them a bedtime story during his anti-Obamacare filibusterlast fall. Instead, it was his father, Rafael.

The headline at BuzzFeed: "Ted Cruz's Dad: 'The Average Black Does Not' Understand The Minimum Wage Is Bad." The elder Cruz made the comments at a Republican meeting in Wisconsin last month. Nor was this the first time Rafael Cruz had said things that some (or most) Americans might find unappealing; he's reached the point of having his controversial remarks gathered into collections.

Happily for Ted Cruz, though, he's not the only one with a family member whomight not be an asset on the campaign trail. And with basically everything else about the 2016 field already on focus, we decided it was time to evaluate the extent to which each candidate's family might help or hinder his or her chances.

This couldn't be more subjective, so allow us to articulate the standards we applied. The first metric is how much of an asset or liability the member of the family is likely to be, on a scale of1 to 10. The second metric: The extent to which the candidate or his or her opponents are likely to employ the family member on the campaign trail. We tripled the asset/liability score (to give it more weight) and added in the likelihood, giving us our totals.

And here they are, from family as biggest liability to family as biggest asset...

Pro: His father, Ron Paul Asset: 4/10. Likelihood:10/10

Rand Paul owes his current position -- at least in some small measure -- to his father having gone before him. His initial campaign for the Senate, as we've mentioned before, leveraged Ron Paul's relationships and base of support. It's clear that Rand Paul will again hope to tap into that base for his presidential race. That base won't be quite as vehement and energized as it was for Ron Paul, it seems safe to assume, but it will still be a boost.

Con: His father, Ron Paul Liability: 9/10. Likelihood: 10/10

And then there's the flip side. Ron Paul's willingness to stand on the outer edge of political rhetoric is a key reason heearned that enthusiastic support, but it also means that he keeps saying things that his son might find embarrassing. For example, his proclamation recently that the government knew exactly what would happen on 9/11. Having himself run for president twice, Ron Paul is a pretty well-known name. That's not helpful for his son.

Pro: His daughters Asset: 5/10. Likelihood: 6/10

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Rand Paul has the biggest family problem of anyone in the 2016 field

A member of Sen. Ted Cruz's (R-Tex.) family was in the news again Tuesday. Unfortunately for the senator, it was not his two adorable daughters, made famous when he read them a bedtime story during his anti-Obamacare filibusterlast fall. Instead, it was his father, Rafael.

The headline at BuzzFeed: "Ted Cruz's Dad: 'The Average Black Does Not' Understand The Minimum Wage Is Bad." The elder Cruz made the comments at a Republican meeting in Wisconsin last month. Nor was this the first time Rafael Cruz had said things that some (or most) Americans might find unappealing; he's reached the point of having his controversial remarks gathered into collections.

Happily for Ted Cruz, though, he's not the only one with a family member whomight not be an asset on the campaign trail. And with basically everything else about the 2016 field already on focus, we decided it was time to evaluate the extent to which each candidate's family might help or hinder his or her chances.

This couldn't be more subjective, so allow us to articulate the standards we applied. The first metric is how much of an asset or liability the member of the family is likely to be, on a scale of1 to 10. The second metric: The extent to which the candidate or his or her opponents are likely to employ the family member on the campaign trail. We tripled the asset/liability score (to give it more weight) and added in the likelihood, giving us our totals.

And here they are, from family as biggest liability to family as biggest asset...

Pro: His father, Ron Paul Asset: 4/10. Likelihood:10/10

Rand Paul owes his current position -- at least in some small measure -- to his father having gone before him. His initial campaign for the Senate, as we've mentioned before, leveraged Ron Paul's relationships and base of support. It's clear that Rand Paul will again hope to tap into that base for his presidential race. That base won't be quite as vehement and energized as it was for Ron Paul, it seems safe to assume, but it will still be a boost.

Con: His father, Ron Paul Liability: 9/10. Likelihood: 10/10

And then there's the flip side. Ron Paul's willingness to stand on the outer edge of political rhetoric is a key reason heearned that enthusiastic support, but it also means that he keeps saying things that his son might find embarrassing. For example, his proclamation recently that the government knew exactly what would happen on 9/11. Having himself run for president twice, Ron Paul is a pretty well-known name. That's not helpful for his son.

Pro: His daughters Asset: 5/10. Likelihood: 6/10

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The Fix: Rand Paul has the biggest family problem of anyone in the 2016 field

USA: Rand Paul blasts Obama for having "no strategy in the Middle East"
Video ID: 20140829-044 W/S Rand Paul on stage [cutaway] SOT, Rand Paul, U.S. Senator from Kentucky (English): "Now there are things the government has to do,...

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