Rand Paul: “I would like to go on record as saying that it would be a really…”

On the recordFebruary 6, 2017

I would like to go on record as saying that it would be a really rotten, no good, bad idea to have ground troops in Syria.

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Paul opposes deploying ground troops in Syria, calling it naive and presumptuous.

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