To put a human face on this, you asked the families of the four soldiers who died in Mali chasing a herdsman, should we have discussed whether we needed to chase that herdsman, what that herdsman's threat to our national security was?
Rand Paul questions the need for military action in Mali and the lack of discussion in Congress.
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