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Sen. Lugar Says Country Can’t ‘Afford’ Ron Paul’s Foreign Policy Views | On CNN this morning, Sen. Dick Lugar (R-IN) — one of the Republican Party’s leading thinkers on foreign policy issues — rejected GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul’s calls for less U.S. intervention around the world as “uncalled for.” “It’s not a message which, really, a president of the United States could ever afford to extend,” Lugar said. Taking the opposite view of Paul’s isolationism, Lugar argued, “We’re the only country that can afford to go everywhere all over the world.” Watch it:
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