“Because when you look at who these groups are and what kind of weapons they have, their weapons came from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and maybe even some of them from us. Now our side will say, we didn’t give them intentionally. But we threw the weapons indiscriminately into that civil war.”

Paul spoke out strongly against arming the Syrian rebels at the time, noting that many were affiliated or allied with Al Qaeda and saying it was “nonsense” to arm people we had been fighting for 15 years.