[pierrem15]

The usual Ron Paul asshattery. So we could expect our assistance to the Afghans in ejecting the Soviet Union to have resulted in a terrorist attack killing almost 3,000 people, mainly civilians?

We deserved it in other words?

The libertarian conceit that everyone will act like rational economic agents if we don't "meddle" is simply utter nonsense. We will be attacked by some parties for the same reason mountain climbers climb mountains: because they can.

Neither Stalin nor Hitler nor bin Laden gave a rat's ass about the final cost of victory or whether it passed a rational cost/benefit test.

[Republican Wildcat]

Some people don’t read past the headline. A discussion on whether or not our foreign policy is flawed is fair game. But you read the actual content of the post, and it is the typical “America is evil” and conspiracy nonsense all too common with Ron Paul’s floor rantings.

[Ibi Libertas in Veritate]

The neoconservative conceit that everyone will put up with hostility and/or occupation as long as it’s America that’s doing it. So glad that your strain of conservatism is already in the dustbin of history.

But go ahead and set up some more strawmen if it makes you feel any better.