Let 'em rot
by digby
Oh this is clever. Rand Paul isn't trusted by the GOP base because of his alleged (and I do mean alleged) isolationism. But he's one of them. And he can prove it:
While speaking with Iowa-based radio host Jan Mickelson yesterday, Paul criticized efforts by the U.S. and the United Nations to settle Iraqi refugees in the country. Mickelson was even more sweeping, attacking efforts to settle Muslim refugees in general.
“We won the war in Iraq, why would we be giving political asylum to people to come from a country where we won the war?” Paul asked. “It’s one thing if you’re trying to escape Castro or trying to escape communism in Russia or Vietnam or somewhere else or China, I can understand asylum, but when you win the war, why would you give people asylum? And if the 60,000 coming here are friends of the West, wouldn’t you want that 60,000 to be in Iraq helping to form a better country over there?”
He continued: “If you let the better people, the people who like the United States leave and come here, then aren’t you diminishing the numbers of folks that would make that country a better place to live? So I think the whole idea of resettling 60,000 people from Iraq over here was a mistake. But I also think that the refugee program as well as the student visa program are some of the highest risks for us to be attacked.”
Following a rant by Mickelson about the Somali-American community in Minnesota, which he deemed a national security risk, Paul agreed that the U.S. needs to reexamine its refugee program.
Mickelson recently promised to ask every 2016 candidate about Muslim refugees in the U.S.
That goes straight to the diseased moral center of the right wing. Sure, these Iraqis may have helped the US when it illegally invaded their country and turned themselves into pariahs among their own people but fuck 'em. They're Mooslims, amirite? And anyway, we always knew all that stuff about Saddam and the rape rooms and "let freedom reign" was a pile of crapola, right? We never gave a damn about any of those people. Let 'em rot over there.
If you didn't know that Rand Paul was a disgusting piece of work before, it's surely clear by now.
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