Rand Paul: Withhold Foreign Aid from ‘Crazy Countries’

The senator and his foreign policy.

Senator Rand Paul (R-TX) asks quesions during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Permanent subcommittee on Investigations on Capitol Hill in Washington, District of Columbia, U.S., on Tuesday, May 21, 2013.

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Kentucky Senator Rand Paul is traveling to New Hampshire next week, and he's been making the right preliminary moves, like a call-in to Howie Carr's Boston-area talk show. In his conversation Friday, Paul was pulled back into an argument over how the United States should and could respond to the actions of radical Muslims. The relevant part of the conversation:

Rand Paul: I'm calling for it, can't make it happen, but what I can do is withhold money from these crazy countries, if they are gonna not be supportive of us, if they are indiscriminately arming crazy/radical Islam in Syria, Libya and across the globe.