Sen. Rand Paul on Trump’s Threats to Iran: When You Bomb a Country, Then People Tend to Rally Around Their Own Flag

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PAUL: “Well, you know, we’ve had various times through the year protests in Iran. We’re always hopeful that, you know, a freedom movement will develop and overwhelm the authoritarian government there. The only problem I have with saying, ‘Oh, we’re going to bomb Iran,’ is that sometimes it has the opposite effect. So, when you bomb a country, then people tend to rally around their own flag. They tend to see this is the — you know, a foreign country coming in and bombing us. And so, I don’t think it always has that effect. I wish — you know, the same as the president, I want success. I hope that the freedom movement survives. I hope that the Iranian government, you know, doesn’t kill the protesters. But it sounds like they already have. But I don’t know that bombing Iran will have the effect that is intended.”