It's Time To Destroy ISIS

'If I were President ...'

By: Alex Pappas on September 3, 2014 10:10 AM

Rand Paul is often labeled by his critics an isolationist, but the Republican senator from Kentucky is now calling on President Obama to outline plans to use the military to "destroy" the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.

"If I were President, I would call a joint session of Congress," Paul told the Associated Press. "I would lay out the reasoning of why ISIS is a threat to our national security and seek congressional authorization to destroy ISIS militarily."

Over the weekend, Paul, the AP reported, told a crowd of conservative activists in Texas at a summit organized by Americans for Prosperity that “if the president has no strategy, maybe it's time for a new president."

ISIS --- or the Islamic State, as they now call themselves --- is killing opponents as it takes lands in Syria and Iraq in an attempt to establish an Islamic caliphate. The Islamic State has also taken responsibility for the beheading of two American journalists, James Foley and Steven Sotloff.

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