by Olivia Nuzzi & Tim Mak
The Daily Beast
The likely presidential candidate is doubling down on on his support for anti-ISIS air strikes, despite new evidence that they aren’t working.
LAS VEGAS — When the facts change, don’t expect Sen. Rand Paul to necessarily change his mind.
Despite the recent revelation that ISIS’s territorial control in Syria has ballooned since the start of U.S. air strikes, the purported skeptic of intervention is doubling down on the American bombing campaign there.
And he’s doing it with a flourish of campaign rhetoric, criticizing "a war Hillary [Clinton] was very interested and promoted in Syria" while simultaneously defending American air strikes in that war.
By holding firm on the anti-ISIS strikes, the likely 2016 presidential nominee is echoing the arguments made by President Obama’s Pentagon, moving him further away from his previously atypical position on military involvement in the Middle East that had distinguished him from the rest of the Republican Party.
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