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Published October 23, 2014

Oct. 22, 2014: Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., speaks at a campaign event for Republican businessman Rod Blum, who is running against Democratic state lawmaker Pat Murphy in the 1st Congressional District.(AP)

NEW YORK Charging that "America cannot disengage from the world," Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul on Thursday confronted critics who brand him an isolationist as he endorsed an American foreign policy that embraces war with limits.

The libertarian-leaning Republican is eyeing a 2016 presidential bid despite skepticism from GOP leaders over his worldview. Paul on Thursday described military action as necessary under certain conditions.

"America should and will fight wars when the consequences intended and unintended are worth the sacrifice," he said in a 20-minute speech shortly before accepting an award from the Center for the National Interest, a think tank founded by former President Richard Nixon. "America shouldn't fight wars where the best outcome is stalemate. America shouldn't fight wars when there is no plan for victory."

Paul has drawn sharp criticism from within his own party for favoring a smaller American footprint on the international stage. The first-term Kentucky senator has called for the end of all foreign aid and closing some U.S. military bases abroad.

Similar positions helped sink the presidential ambitions of his father, former Texas Rep. Ron Paul. That's a fate the younger Paul is working hard to avoid.

Polling suggests that a war-weary American public might respond well to Paul's reframing, even if his positions concern some of the Republican Party's most powerful donors and opinion leaders. New York Rep. Peter King has warned that a Paul presidency would be "disastrous" for the nation's interests and likened his views to the Republican Party's isolationist wing from the 1930s.

Paul earned a much warmer reception while facing a friendly audience Thursday night.

"I think I just heard Ronald Reagan speaking," said Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform. "We just heard tonight a great deal of common sense."

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Seeking to shed an isolationist label that some have tried to stick on him, Sen. Rand Paul on Thursday called for an American foreign policy agenda he touted as conservative realism that falls in between hawkish interventionism and disengagement from the rest of the world.

Americans want strength and leadership, but that doesnt mean they see war as the only solution, Mr. Paul said in prepared remarks. America shouldnt fight wars where the best outcome is stalemate. America shouldnt fight wars when there is no plan for victory. America shouldnt fight wars that arent authorized by the American people, by Congress.

America should and will fight wars when the consequences intended and unintended are worth the sacrifice, the Kentucky Republican continued.

Mr. Paul, who spoke in New York at the Center for the National Interest, said in his remarks that the war on terror is not over and America cannot disengage from the world.

To defend our country, we must understand that a hatred of our values exists, and acknowledge that interventions in foreign countries may well exacerbate this hatred, but that ultimately, we must be willing and able to defend our country and our interests, he said.

Some anger is blowback, but some anger originates in an aberrant and intolerant distortion of religion that wages war against all infidels, the potential 2016 GOP presidential contender said. Yes, we need a hammer ready, but not every civil war is a nail. There is a time to eliminate our enemies, but there is also a time to cultivate allies and encouragers among civilized Muslim nations.

We cant retreat from the world, but we cant remake it in our own image either, he continued. We cant and shouldnt engage in nation building, but we can facilitate trade and extend the blessings of freedom and free markets around the world.

Driving principles for his common-sense conservative realism include the notions that indispensable force is and always has been an indispensable part of defending the country, Congress must authorize the decision to intervene, and peace and security require a commitment to diplomacy and leadership.

He reiterated his support for the war in Afghanistan in 2001 in response to 9/11 but said that stalemate and perpetual policing seems to be the countrys mission now in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria.

He also made clear that he supports a strategy of airstrikes to dismantle the Islamic State terrorist group, but said he doubts a decisive victory is possible in the short term and that ultimately only the people of the region can destroy the group, also known as ISIS or ISIL.

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