Rand Paul: “But the finances are certainly important. In the Congress, because we're slipping into this war, we have just recently…”

“But the finances are certainly important. In the Congress, because we're slipping into this war, we have just recently granted $7.5 billion of aid to Pakistan. And what did they do with this money? Well, it's supposed to help rebuild their country, help their infrastructure. Well, we need a couple of dollars here for our infrastructure. But they can take that money; it's fungible. It goes into their intelligence. Their intelligence observations are being used for the Taliban, and we are fighting the Taliban. So it's totally inconsistent that we are on both sides of so many wars and what's going on. The mujahedin, they were our allies and we were fighting the occupation of the Soviets. But now that same group, who are called the Taliban now, the Taliban, we have to remember, had nothing to do with 9/11. It was the al Qaeda, not the Taliban. The Taliban are people who are unified with one issue, one concern they have, foreign occupation or foreign bombings of those countries. We need to make sure the American people know what's going on and that there are sometimes revelations that we don't hear about. Too often our government is involved in secret wars.”