Refusing to spend borrowed money is not stabbing the troops in the back. Leaving the troops in a belligerent operation when the funds are stopped would be stabbing the troops in the back, and that is not a decision Paul could make one way or the other as Congressman.
It isn't borrowed money. Defense spending is a small percentage of tax receipts. We do not borrow money to cover our defense budget. And even if we did spend borrowings, it would be one of the few Constitutionally mandated expenditures - mandated by a Constitution that contemplates and approves of public debt.
Leaving the troops in a belligerent operation when the funds are stopped would be stabbing the troops in the back
This is precisely the dishonest, mealymouthed, cowardly, yellowbellied, gutless play on words that the Left is championing.
Telling our soldiers in the field that their work is not worth sustaining and we're not paying for it is backstabbing.
Pure and simple.
This is an unconstitutional attempt by Ron Paul and his treasonous accomplices to steal the warfighting power from the Executive.
It is beneath contempt.