Rand Paul

But the first paperwork they fill out is signing up for welfare.

So I had this debate for years with McCain.

McCain said we should admit all these people who were interpreters in Afghanistan, all these people that are interpreters in Iraq.

And my response to him was this.

If they can speak English and they're pro-Western, they need to stay in their country and be the founding fathers of their country.

If the people who speak English and are pro-Western all leave, then all the crazy jihadists are the ones going to run the government.

So part of the reason the Taliban runs Afghanistan again is 80,000 of the best people probably came over here that speak English and have some kind of knowledge.

They should have stayed in their country.

We won the war.

Well, the war went on forever and ever.

I don't think saying we won the war in Afghanistan – They won and it immediately reverted to the Stone Age when we left.

But for many, many years when they were coming over here – But you can't say we won it.

What I'm saying is from the perspective of the people, the government that was in place for the 20 years that we were there was a moderate government that was friendly to these people.

I think them leaving was them – they should have been the founding fathers of their country.

So, for example –

We left them there to die.

In 1812, the British came back and attacked us.

If we would have all left and said, oh, well, damn, they're attacking us again.

We're under attack.

No, they should have fought for their country.