GOP White House Hopefuls Bicker Over America’S Role In World
Steve Peoples, Associated Press
April 18, 2015 Updated: April 18, 2015 12:07pm
NASHUA, N.H. Rand Paul lashed out Saturday at military hawks in the Republican Party in a clash over foreign policy dividing the packed GOP presidential field.
Paul, a first-term senator from Kentucky who favors a smaller U.S. footprint in the world, said that some of his Republican colleagues would do more harm in international affairs than would leading Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton.
The other Republicans will criticize the president and Hillary Clinton for their foreign policy, but they would just have done the same thing just 10 times over, Paul said on the closing day of a New Hampshire GOP conference that brought about 20 presidential prospects to the first-in-the-nation primary state.
Theres a group of folks in our party who would have troops in six countries right now, maybe more, Paul said.
Foreign policy looms large in the presidential race as the U.S. struggles to resolve diplomatic and military conflicts across the globe.
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