Rand Paul's filibuster

So this will surprise no one, but I can't fail to mark the occasion: Rand Paul, generally, is horribly wrong about the best course for the United States, and someone whose domestic agenda would be ruinous for our country, and especially its most vulnerable. But on the issue of executive overreach, civil liberties, and the limitless projection of military force-- of which drones are but one small part-- he's completely right. He deserves credit for what he's doing, from anyone who believes in restraining the government, the rule of law, and the equal value of all human life.

If you can't separate his deeply wrong positions from this enlightened one, you are either an imbecile or a deluded partisan, and in either case, you are a detriment to your country and its democracy. All of the great crimes of humanity have been committed by some but permitted by many more, people who may not have supported the actions in question, but who collaborated, who justified, who dissembled, or merely ignored. At some point, you have to take a stand, and if a stand against what our country's foreign policy has become must emerge from a man who is wrong about everything else, so be it.