This is classic Ron Paul. I believe it's an edit from his farewell to Congress speech.
I appreciate not all Freepers will agree with this message but it's powerful and enduring.
Anything conceived by humans alone is “deeply flawed”.
Check out my tagline. I realized eight years ago that marching lockstep to that foreign policy was wrong.
Wasn't that one of the key observations of PDJT's Presidential campaign ?
Learn something about the Islamic/arabic mentality before you help Iran nuke Israel to death and restart the holocaust again.
In Dr. Paul's thinking that the enemy of my enemy is my friend, he is making two mistakes:
1. the Jews are not your enemy, Dr. Paul, you just hate them, and;
2, the enemy of my enemy is sometimes just an enemy.
Don't wind up as Sotoloff, Feley, and Kayla Mueller wound up due to their antisemitism and self hatred.
Outstanding. Conversional.
The United States should be isolationist by nature and interventionist in rare, exceptional cases. That's the only legitimate political stature for a country that is supposed to be built on the idea of limited government. A government that pisses away thousands of lives and trillions of dollars on military campaigns in Islamic sh!t-holes halfway around the world while facilitating an invasion of Third World peasants here at home has no moral claim on any loyalty from its citizens anymore.
If it starts WWIII, then it was very very wrong.
WWII was just. We had to clean up for the mistakes of WWI.
The Cold War was a mixed bag. The Korean War was a success. We rescued South Korea. 36,574 deaths is a heavy price to pay for South Korea. So I am not completely sure about that.
Vietnam War was a mistake. Enough said. Reagan was great during the '80s.
Bush provided steady leadership during Panama and Operation Desert Storm. We went in to break stuff. And then we got out. No problems with that. His son should have done the same when he went in Afghanistan, take out the Taliban and then turn it over to the Northern Alliance.
I didn't have a problem with invading Iraq the second time to take out Saddam. But we should have turned it over to the Iraqi Army and then left. Paul Bremer made the worst possible mistake by dismantling the Iraqi Army so all the soldiers with guns became insurgents.
The world is a dangerous place. So unfortunately, we have the burden as the world's cop.
It seems at times we have more powerful and dangerous internal enemies than external enemies.
He is too simplistic: single source of causation, and nationally self-flagillating and thus not persuasive.