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ISIL is not Islamic. Rand Paul agrees
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Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) clenches as he speaks during the inaugural Freedom Summit meeting for conservative speakers in Manchester, N.H., on April 12, 2014. Reuters/Lucas Jackson
Sen. Rand Paul will not be able to attend Burning Man in 2015. Why? Well, maybe he'll be in the midst of a 2016 presidential run. In response to an invitation to the festival from the Americans For Tax Reform, Paul said he might betoo busy to attend the week-long festival in Nevada.
"Thank you kindly for the invitation, Grover. I'll certainly consider it, but I think I might be pretty busy next summer," Paul said.
The founder of Americans For Tax reform, Grover Norquist, issued a challenge to the senator earlier this month to become a member of what Norquist calls his Dream Team. He hopes to bring a group of Republican lawmakers with him to next years event who have a mix "of athletic, artistic and technical skills, according to the Huffington Post.
Burning Man takes place the entire week before Labor Day in Black Rock Desert, Nevada. The desert is transformed into a city, where festival goers and organizers participate in a variety of counterculture activities ranging from building an egg for shelter to covering yourself in silver, according to the festivals website. Oh, and some people do a lot of drugs.
You're here to survive, according to the websites description. What happens to your brain and body when exposed to 107 degree heat, moisture wicking off your body and dehydrating you within minutes? You know and watch yourself.
Paul told Fusion that he would have loved to attend the festival, if only he werent so busy.
"It's clear that festival-goers are strong proponents of liberty, as well as personal responsibility, Paul said. I couldn't agree with those philosophies more. Id love to experience the festival firsthand.
Paul is a contender for the Republican presidential nomination. A CNN/ORC poll found that 16 percent of Republicans and GOP-leaning independents would likely support him in 2016.
Aside from Paul, Norquist confirmed to Fusion that his Dream Team" included Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.), Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif).
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 (UPI) -- Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., said it's time for "civilized Islam" to step up to defeat the Islamic State (IS) while condemning President Barack Obama's executive action.
Paul said Saudi Arabia, one of America's few allies in the area, has let this go on too long and has aided and abetted the rise of ISIS.
"Ultimately, civilized Islam will have to step up. We need to do everything we can to protect ourselves, I'm all in for saying we have to combat ISIS," Paul told Fox News' Sean Hannity on Wednesday. "So I think it is important not only for the American public but for the world and for the Islamic world to point out that this is not a true form of Islam, this is an abhorrent form."
Paul criticized Obama for his response to IS, asserting that the president should have taken his address to the Hill and asked for military authorization from Congress.
"This is an intervention, and I don't always support interventions but this is one I do support. But I think the president would be more powerful, the country would be more united -- he should've come before a joint session of Congress, laid out his plan as he did tonight, and then called for an up or down vote," he said. "It is unconstitutional what he's doing."
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Rand Paul: 'Civilized Islam will have to step up'
Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul says the U.S. has "gone too far in thinking we can re-create an American democratic paradise in the Middle East." LM Otero/AP hide caption
Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul says the U.S. has "gone too far in thinking we can re-create an American democratic paradise in the Middle East."
In a prime-time speech Wednesday, President Obama called on Congress to support his fight against the extremist group known as Islamic State. That call has been getting mixed reaction on Capitol Hill, including from Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky. He says that while he supports the fight against ISIS, he believes the president is "going about it in the wrong way."
His father, Ron Paul, twice ran for president as a candidate who never strayed from a firm libertarian path.
And the younger Paul has been shoring up support in places like Iowa this year, presumably to explore the possibility of his own bid for the presidency in 2016. His supporters see him as a more viable candidate, with broader appeal, than his father.
Rand Paul sat down with NPR's Robert Siegel to discuss the president's strategy to fight Islamic State, as well as the government's role in job creation and immigration reform.
On President Obama's plan to fight Islamic State
The Constitution's pretty clear. The Federalist papers are pretty clear. ... They very specifically delegated the power to declare war to Congress. They wanted this to be a congressional decision; they did not want war to be engaged in by the executive without approval of Congress.
In this particular instance, I do support combating ISIS. I think that ISIS is a threat to our embassy, to our consulate, as well as potentially to the American people. So I support the effort; I just think he's going about it in the wrong way.
Basically, military intervention should be done constitutionally, by Congress, and in the deliberations there should be a discussion of whether or not there's a vital American interest or a vital American need in that area. I would say that the previous engagements in Libya and in Syria have led to a stronger ISIS, have led to a safe haven for ISIS.
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Rand Paul: U.S. Must Be More Realistic In Foreign Policy Approach
As hes made his way, methodically and relentlessly, toward launching a 2016 bid to be the Republican Partys nominee for president, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul has had to evolve on some issues while disowning his prior stance on others.
One of the areas where hes most conspicuously given himself a makeover is foreign policy. Paul used to be the standard-bearer for the rights anti-interventionists and opponents of empire, but lately hes been sounding more and more hawkish, and less and less like the smoother, more accessible version of his father that many conservative doves hoped he would be.
Yet according to reports, these increasingly crestfallen supporters have found themselves a silver lining: While Paul will support the presidents plan to increase the number and intent of airstrikes against ISIS, he still opposes that other major request of the hawks, arming the moderate Free Syrian Army (FSA).
The news came via the Huffington Post, whose reporter was told by Paul senior aide Doug Stafford that the senator believes arming the same side as ISIS was and is a strategic error and [he] would oppose such action.
By dissenting against arming the rebels which is all he can do, given that Obama is not asking for, and Congress is not demanding, official authorization to fight ISIS Paul is siding with those who argue that the U.S. should be less willing to supply foreign fighters with weapons, lest they one day fall into the hands of Americas enemies. President Obama was formerly the most influential member of this group, but has shifted position in response to heightened fears of a future ISIS attack.
Despite the words of Pauls spokesperson, however, it should be noted that Paul did not emphasize his concerns about the FSA when he appeared on Sean Hannitys Fox News show after the presidents speech. Rather than burnish his dovish credentials, Paul instead focused on the element of the ISIS strategy he agreed with, and then criticized the president on constitutional grounds.
Obamas not seeking an authorization vote from Congress, Paul said, [didn't] in any way represent what our Constitution dictates nor what our Founding Fathers intended.The march to the White House continues.
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