[hinckley buzzard]

Paul invoked the ghost of Robert Taft, the GOP Senate leader who fought entry into NATO.

This tidbit reveals much about Paul's incompetence. The US did not enter NATO. The US forged NATO at the desperate plea of western Europe, who was prostrate and facing millions of Red Amy troops and tanks at their doorstep. And besides, NATO worked. I guess successfully deterring the USSR and later the whole Warsaw Pact and keeping the peace in Europe for forty years sucks if you're a crackpot isolationist.

[jpsb]

once must be somewhat pragmatic from time to time, NATO was a very good idea. Taft was worng on that score, on the other hand the UN has not worked out all the well. The idea should be to take each on it's merits and not hide behind dogma. Real leaders face hard choices. Princibles would guide not dictate.

One should think long and hard before letting lose the dogs of war "for no one knows where they will run."