Washington Post: Oh $h*t, Rand Paul can’t name favorite wars!

“…I am a realist,” (Rand Paul) proclaimed (in his historic speech at the Heritage Foundation, watch it here.), “not a neoconservative, nor an isolationist.” He described himself as being between the two extremes of intervening “everywhere all the time” and being “nowhere any of the time.” He informed the Heritage scholars that “Reagan’s foreign policy was much closer to what I am advocating than what we have today.”

Oh? The same Reagan who intervened in Beirut, invaded Grenada and bombed Tripoli?

In fact, the only military intervention Paul explicitly supported in his speech was attacking al-Qaeda in Afghanistan — a conflict even his father voted to authorize. Later, in a conference call with reporters, I asked Paul whether there was any other military intervention in the past 30 or 40 years he would have supported. That left a wide range of possibilities — Vietnam, Panama, Kuwait, Somalia, Haiti, the Balkans, Iraq, Libya — but he declined to name one. (The horror!)

The apple, it would appear, doesn’t fall far from the tree.

– Dana Milbank, Washington Post
I suppose Mr. Milbank could have posed the question this way, “American wars, great wars or greatest wars?
FLASHBACK to Stephen Colbert (watch at 4:29) See even more–this feels like an infomercial!–neocon freak out over at the Washington Post today in this piece claiming Paul is wrong to accuse McCain of supporting ‘100 yrs’ of U.S. presence in Iraq!