During the Antony Blinken confirmation hearings as Biden’s Secretary of State, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said: “You’ve been a consistent Supporter of military intervention in the Middle East from the Iraq War to the Libyan War to the Syrian civil war.” Paul noted that despite the disaster of Libya, the Obama administration intended to do the same thing in Syria. “The lesson of these wars is that regime change doesn’t work. People say we will get rid of the iron fist and Thomas Jefferson is going to rise from the ashes. That is a naive notion to believe that Thomas Jefferson or his like even live in Libya or live in Iraq.”