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A War Worth Fighting: Rand Paul and Chris Christie

By Troy Senik
Thursday, August 08 2013

Don’t look now, but the 2016 presidential campaign just got kicked off a few years early. The occasion: a characteristically blunt jab dealt from New Jersey Governor Chris Christie to Kentucky Senator Rand Paul. Christie, responding to questions during a recent event at the Aspen Institute in Colorado, referred to the GOP’s newly ascendant libertarian impulse on national security as “a dangerous thought,” claimed that its advocates were prone to “esoteric debates,” and specifically named Paul as one of the offending parties. He even suggested that anyone holding…

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