Paul supports the troops. What he (and the Founders) don’t support is the nation-building & propping up regimes aspect of it.
Ron Paul is an isolationist, well so am I. Except for Liberals, most Americans are probably isolationists at heart. If the rest of the world would just leave us alone! We have no desire for empire, but unfortunately, isolationism is a pipe dream these days. The world’s too small, communication is instant, computers and every other electronic device under the sun available at the push of a button. You can fly anywhere, be anywhere in a day or two. Frankly, the rest of the world can’t wait to get here and bring their problems along for us to solve and pay for — meanwhile, they demand to vote in our Presidential elections, if you please. They swarm over the broken borders by the millions...and now Mexicans in LA and environs are demonstrating for their own ‘Mexican congress’ to ‘take care of their concerns’. (If this isn’t Step 2 of ‘Reconquista’, I’ll eat my hat.)
Nukes in the hands of enemies, lunatics busy building rockets with the capability of hitting NY or LA. What to do? Paul thinks we can pull up the drawbridge and be safe. That day is long gone. He’s a fanatic, following his lodestar no matter what. In less polite circles he’d be called delusional.