The big problem with Ron Paul’s proposed policy is that if every tin-pan dictator had a nuke, this world would be a much more dangerous place than it is. If Iran gets the bomb, then the Saudis will need one, the Syrians will need one, the Egyptians will need one, Turkey will need one, Libya will need one, and every other dictatorship in the region will need one. Eventually, one of them will use it. If they all have nukes, then we will be looking fondly on the time when the ME was only a powder keg, because we will be looking at Armageddon. And the fact that we made it thru the Cold War without a nuclear disaster is not very convincing. We came very close on several occasions, and it was not an isolationist policy that got us thru the danger.
The fact is the US can’t stop it-we are not omnipotent.