[trek]

"If Ron Paul wants to look for a reason for 9/11, he should start in Mogadishu, where a weak American president did exactly what Paul wants to do in Iraq, and the animals took it as a sign that we could be pushed around."

If Ron Paul had been President we would not have been in Mogadishu delivering handouts at the behest of the United Nations.

Without commenting specifically on Ron Paul's views, almost everyone I read on FR fails to distinguish isolationism from pacifism. Personally, the idea of a ferocious isolationism appeals to me.

[r9etb]

Personally, the idea of a ferocious isolationism appeals to me.

What, precisely, is "ferocious isolationinsm?"

[Mr. Silverback]

If Ron Paul had been President we would not have been in Mogadishu delivering handouts at the behest of the United Nations.

That's almost certainly true, and I believe the main foreign policy goal of the U.S. (other than stuff directly related to the WOT) should be to leave the UN and oppoise their agenda whereever possible.

That said, it amazes me how so many Paul supporters can claim that we should believe bin Laden when he says "I attack you because..." but we shouldn't worry about that whole thing where he said Mogadishu showed him we're paper tigers. When somebody kills your guys, you obliterate them, you don't run home to mommy. Whether an intervention is a mistake or not, people around the world should know that killing and desecrating an American soldier is a quick way to a messy suicide.

[Sam Gamgee]

Ron Paul can’t distinguish isolationism from Arabism and blame America firstism.

[REDWOOD99]

Chuck Norris wears Ron Paul jammies.