not just in issues like immigration, which you would expect, but even on the core threats to the united states, we are so divided as a country. terrorism is number one. but how does it break out after that? after that, among core trump supporters and indeed among republicans, immigration and islamic fundamentalism are very high threats, they re critical threats to the united states. for democrats, it s nuclear proliferation and the threat of a north korean nuclear weapon. climate change appears on the list. another financial crisis. what about the concern that people have often had about a return of american isolationism? america historically didn t want to be involved in the world from washington s farewell address from the 1930s. that changed after world war ii. a lot of people worry when they listen to some of the things trump says that he wants to withdraw from the world and his supporters want to withdraw from the world.
are so divided as a country. terrorism is number one. but how does it break out after that? after that, among core trump supporters and indeed among republicans, immigration and islamic fundamentalism are very high threats, they re critical threats to the united states. for democrats, it s nuclear proliferation and the threat of a north korean nuclear weapon. climate change appears on the list. another financial crisis. what about the concern that people have often had about a return of american isolationism? america historically didn t want to be involved in the world from washington s farewell address from the 1930s. that changed after world war ii. a lot of people worry when they listen to some of the things trump says that he wants to withdraw from the world and his supporters want to withdraw from the world. whaelts t what s the polling? that s the interesting thing.
where, went our own party, we have a sort of an isolationist strain developing. and i want to make certain to do everything i can, and that s the purpose of this alliance that liz and i have started, is to make certain that these national security questions are front and center in the campaign. to make certain that the issues of national security to face the threats we face in the middle east today and so forth are front and center in the debate and dialogue going forward between now and this year s election and the election two years beyond. so that s partly what we re going to look at. taking what you just said there, would rand paul be dangerous as president? i said i didn t want to get into endorsing or criticizing any candidate. i did express the view that i think isolationism is crazy. that was former vice president cheney at a politico lunch today after he had no doubt read rand paul s piece in politico which included this line.
so that s partly what we re going to look at. taking what you just said there, would rand paul be dangerous as president? i said i didn t want to get into endorsing or criticizing any candidate. i did express the view that i think isolationism is crazy. that was former vice president cheney at a politico lunch today after he had no doubt read rand paul s piece in politico which included this line. when megan kelly of fox news tells dick cheney that history has proven that you got it wrong on iraq, it is a very important lesson. we must remember that history so we don t repeat it. rand paul knows what he s doing here. he is willfully taking on his own party. calling them the let s intervene and consider the consequences later crowd. rand paul is a very good student of the foreign policy mistakes of his party, and rand paul and his writers have become increasingly more sophisticated
i have also been open to the same option if it makes sense. i support continuing our assistance to the government of iraq which include armaments and intelligence. now, it s important to understand that these op ed pieces were not written by rick perry or rand paul. they were written by their staffs. and they demonstrate, once again that rick perry and his staff are not ready for primetime presidential campaigning and rand paul and his staff are ready. on this issue, at least. i would quote more from team perry s op ed piece if it wasn t a fact-free, old-fashioned, republican ramble about ronald reagan which tries to use the word isolationism as if it is a profoundly unamerican idea. even though the father of american isolationism was george washington. in president washington s farewell address he said, the great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is in extending our commercial relations to have with them as