Sen. Rand Paul: ‘It Isn’t Our Responsibility to Rebuild Everybody’s Country’

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PAUL: "So you're differentiating short-term economic assistance from long-term and saying that nation building is long-term assistance and short building is not. You know, I think that could be a distinction. It might be a definitional thing, but we've been there 10 years so we've given quite a bit of aid and it's hard to argue that a little bit of short-term assistance is not on top of a trillion dollars’ worth of nation building, both military and nonmilitary. We've spent a lot of money over there, which goes back to a couple of points. One point, they're not a destitute country. They have oil and, by golly, they ought to rebuild their own country. We can be of some help stabilizing things but it isn't our responsibility to rebuild everybody's country. Look, we're out of money. We're $20 trillion in the hole."