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“It makes things worse,” said Mr. Paul, the Texas congressman running for the Republican presidential nomination. “Sometimes they miss. Sometimes there is collateral damage. And every time we do that, we make more enemies.”

Mr. Paul, a libertarian, placed fourth in the latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll, in October, but his foreign policy positions are at odds with many in the Republican establishment.  Among other examples, Mr. Paul has criticized the CIA’s program of striking at militants in Pakistan’s tribal areas, a program with broad bipartisan support that was begun under President George W. Bush and expanded by President Barack Obama.

Appearing on the program Fox News Sunday , Mr. Paul said that the drone strikes threaten to provoke a civil war in Pakistan, erode Pakistani public opinion of the U.S.  and undermine American security.

“For every one you kill, you create 10 new ones who hate our guts and want to do us harm,” Mr. Paul said…..

he said, sanctions were not the way to dissuade Iran from becoming a nuclear state.

“Sanctions are acts of war . . . Don’t put sanctions on them,” Mr. Paul said. Offering friendship to Tehran could be more productive than punishing Iranians through sanctions, he  said.“For them to be a threat to us or anyone in the region is blown out of proportion,” he said.

During the last presidential campaign, then-candidate Barack Obama argued that the U.S. should talk to Tehran to dissuade Iran from pursuing a nuclear program. But those talks went nowhere, and Mr. Obama has pursued stepped-up sanctions against Tehran. http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2011/11/06/paul-says-drone-strikes-make-more-enemies/?mod=google_news_blog