Sen. Rand Paul planning another filibuster?

Great opportunity for the 2016 presidential  front-runner to talk and talk and talk and talk and give every listener a chance to find many opinions and ideas they have in common with the senator.  

David Weigel writing at Slate:
After yesterday's open hearing   on the case for airstrikes in Syria, Sen. Rand Paul gave a group of reporters 18 minutes to quiz him on his preferred course of action. His fear, stated simply: Anything we do is likely to make the region messier, so why do anything?

"Is it more or less likely if the region will be more or less stable if we have this attack?" he asked, after I asked him whether he worried about the country losing clout if Congress prevented an airstrike. "Same thing for Israel—is it more or less likely that Israel will be attacked? I think there are valid arguments for saying the region will be more unstable if we get a superpower involved in a civil war, more unstable for Israel if we get a superpower involved and the Syrians feel like they have to show Israel something, or Iran gets involved. Russia feels like they're losing face and they need to get more involved." Nobody knew, he said. "It's all conjecture."

What did we know? For starters, we knew that there were no "different restrictions on the president, in the Constitution, [regarding] whether it's a little war." The idea that strikes on Syria would be limited to just that—strikes, no larger war—was folly. "A lot of people made the mistake of saying that because it's a small war, or because we're only using certain types of missiles, we're not going to call it a war. … Vietnam was that way, Iraq was that way to a certain extent." And how would it end? "I think it's almost inevitable there'll be a second war if Assad falls."

Paul repeated an argument he's deployed on a series of TV shows. Assad, for all his faults, is not prosecuting Christians. "The one thing you might say if you wanted to say something good [about him] is that there was some civility there for a generation or more," said Paul. Compare that with Egypt after the temporary fall of its military-backed dictatorship. "We may well be degrading Assad and allowing radical Islamists to take over the country."...........