Except that his math is wrong, and that he ignores historical reality: spending usually increases drastically in wartime.
Compared to spending increases in past overseas deployments (where public debt typically increased from 50-100%), spending increases have been minimal.
Ron Paul's equation is simple: If we stab our troops in the back by cutting off their funding, then the taxpayer will save a bunch.
Those savings will then presumably come in handy for paying the jizya.
Paul never proposed stabbing troops in the back. He has great ideas to reduce the tax burden beginning with a simple concept: the United States Constitution.
We are spending under norms, despite the war.
Also, the idea that if we don't do whatever we will be wearing burkhas is very tired. The muzzies are not a conventional military threat, and they will never have a serious impact on American culture. They are like a big crop of lake flies, intensely irritating, but not a threat to our continued existence.
The attempt to pump them up to Nazi level existential threat are also getting very old, and discredit us.
Please don't slander him. He wants a official declaration of War by congress as required by the Constitution.
And he is not privy to the Geopolitical situation until he gets elected as potus.
Oh. Well then, that doesn't count I guess...
Ron Paul is a typical isolationist socially radical libertarian whose ACU rating is only 83-— roughly Mike DeWine or John McCain territory. He’s a great libertarian but a piss-poor conservative.
The war in Iraq is not a battle he would fight. He would have us pull back to within our borders and fight the terrorists when they come to us, and possibly perform limited strikes against them if they were clearly an imminent threat.
As a libertarian, he's definitely fiscally conservative. He would simply gut the government. I support that to a great extent, but I cannot support his isolationism, and I think that he would be a horrible President for our country right now.
We cannot afford to retreat from the war on terror. Hiding at home will not make us safer.