by Ellison Barber, Washington Free Beacon:

Former Vice President Dick Cheney brushed off criticisms of his foreign policy stance from Sen. Rand Paul (R., Ky.), calling the first-term senator an “isolationist” on Sunday.

“I was a strong supporter then of going into Iraq. I’m a strong supporter now. Everybody knows what my position is. There’s nothing to be argued about there. If we spend our time debating what happened 11 or 12 years ago, we’re going to miss the threat that is growing and that we do face,” Cheney said on “This Week.” “Rand Paul, with all due respect, is basically an isolationist. He doesn’t believe we ought to be involved in that part of the world. I think it’s absolutely essential. One of the things I worried about 12 years ago and that I worry about today, is that there will be another 9/11 attack and that the next time it will be with weapons far deadlier than airline tickets and box cutters.”

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