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To: jdm

Gotta love the Ron Paulies for posting more on the Internet than any other group since the Howard Deaniacs.

Sadly, a libertarian isolationism doesn’t work now, and I don’t trust an isolationist to manage the current Romanesque empire that we currently have. It would be like asking a pacifist to manage a boxing match.

In addition, the dogma of the libertarian isolationist — that if we have foreigners who hurt us, then it’s because we’re outside of our own borders — sounds a lot like the pronouncements of the far left. Personally, I grant that people might have legitimate complaints against the US (heck, we have them here!) but that does not justify the acts of war we’ve suffered.


24 posted on 05/19/2007 6:02:59 PM PDT by TWohlford
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To: TWohlford
libertarian isolationism

Casually throwing in the word Libertarian to make Paul seem like a kook doesn't bolster your argument. It simply means you don't have one to begin with.

Paul's foreign policy views are based on traditional non-interventionalism, you know, the foreign policy we had up until the 1960s.

41 posted on 05/19/2007 7:37:46 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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