Senator Rand Paul comes to Canada for Surgery.

[Canadian Visitor]

That's an aside but maybe Rand's purchase of a mesh-less hernia operation in Canada is a bigger deal than Bush and Obama creating millions of refugees. To each his own.

I don't recall drawing any comparison between these.

I don't know why I would.

I, like most Canadians firmly opposed Bush's intervention in Iraq.

Afghanistan had somewhat more support [[our troops were there); though I had reservations about a scale larger than get the specific terrorists/abettors, as I am well aware of the penchant for invading armies to create a bigger mess, a power vacuum and then leave.

That one is not unique to the US.

Syria likewise hasn't been particularly useful, if intervention were decided upon, it should have been definitive. The West [[Canada, France, UK, US, among those involved there) could have squashed Assad in a week or less if that was the goal. It clearly wasn't. Which makes the whole exercise rather questionable.

But none of that bears on Mr. Rand. His foibles are his own and not be measured against military escapades of dubious value.

If we only hold politicians to account for the latter, they'll get away with more than they already do.