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Rand Paul advocates peaceful engagement

10/23/2015

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At a rally held at Drake University October 14, Rand Paul made a few comments and took two questions. In his initial comments, he spoke against military involvement in the Middle East asserting that the US has no direct strategic interest engaging in a conflict among various factions there.  He also countered critics about whether he is an isolationist, saying he advocates active diplomacy with hostile nations; while his critics often oppose that approach.  "Those who refuse to engage in diplomacy are the real isolationists."

One of the questions posed from the students pertained to how we can manage the influence of transnational corporations. Paul responded in terms of limiting influence of corporations. While he supports the United Citizens ruling, which pertains to election spending, he surmised that it would be constitutional to have a condition of any federal contract with a corporation that they would not be able to spend any money lobbying the federal government. 

As reported by the AFSC Governing Under the Influence project, Paul indicated he was unfamiliar with legislated mandates to detain undocumented immigrants including quotas for private detention facilities, nor with the proposed legislation to remove the quotas.​​
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