Leaders on both sides of the aisle haven’t learned from America’s foreign policy failures, Sens. Rand Paul and JD Vance asserted Thursday at a Capitol Hill event.
Both GOP lawmakers called out their party leader—Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell—by name.
Vance, R-Ohio, accused “neocons” of wanting to go to war with China and stop trading with the communist regime.
“I think the neoconservative approach to China is sort of the dumbest of all possible solutions. They want the Chinese to manufacture all of our stuff, and they also want to go to war with China,” Vance said. “Put me firmly in the category of: I don’t want to go to war with China, and I want them to make our stuff.”
Paul, R-Ky., noting that he’s been called an “isolationist,” attempted to turn the table on McConnell, the senior senator from their common state of…
