When he's given a free reign to speak, generally he makes sense about limiting government and freeing the economy but then almost without fail and seemingly out of nowhere and really in a pretty surprising way, he'll zing off into never-never land about defense or 9/11. It makes it seem like he's got a screw loose somewhere.
Somewhere between a score of 0 (America as the Great Satan) and 100 (America is Heaven and does no wrong) is reality. Paul simply points out reality - that we are not perfect and that we have done things to antagonize non-Americans.
This puts his opponents in a bind. They can't fight him on the other issues, so this is their one sad attempt to portray him as "lunatic." They do this by completely slandering him as "anti-American" (saying America does not score 100 is not the same as saying it scores 0). Ironically they only end up caricaturing themselves as a bunch of nut cases who think America is Heaven, a perfect land that never does anything wrong to anyone outside its borders. I see this many times each day on FR, so sensitive are the leftists here to Paul's message.
Somewhere between a score of 0 (America as the Great Satan) and 100 (America is Heaven and does no wrong) is reality. Paul simply points out reality - that we are not perfect and that we have done things to antagonize non-Americans.
This puts his opponents in a bind. They can't fight him on the other issues, so this is their one sad attempt to portray him as "lunatic." They do this by completely slandering him as "anti-American" (saying America does not score 100 is not the same as saying it scores 0). Ironically they only end up caricaturing themselves as a bunch of nut cases who think America is Heaven, a perfect land that never does anything wrong to anyone outside its borders. I see this many times each day on FR, so sensitive are the leftists here to Paul's message.