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Paul goes against Republican grain on foreign policy

Backs diplomacy with Iran, cutting defense budget

By Shira Schoenberg

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  November 25, 2011

When presidential candidate Ron Paul looks for a Republican model of foreign policy, he looks to Robert Taft - the Ohio senator who opposed US intervention in World War II. He looks to Howard Buffett, a Nebraska representative who criticized the US role in the Korean War. Ask him for a model in the party today, and Paul is vague. Paul added that President George W. Bush’s advocacy of a “humble foreign policy’’ was promising, until Bush walked back on it.

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