You are aware, aren’t you, of the history of how thoroughly our nation screwed over the populations of middle-eastern countries, tolerating and backing tyrants willing to sell out their nation as long as they were a bulwark against the Soviets? Do you know what “Operation Ajax” was?
We propped up the Shah, we bankrolled Saddam, and we continue to support the corrupt monarchy of Saudi Arabia. The US has been crassly manipulating the government and politics of the Middle East since the discovery of oil there in the 1920’s.
Of course, it was for a good cause - our nation’s energy security and position as a global superpower and the ultimate defeat of the Soviet empire - but to pretend that we never stomped on any toes in the region is laughable.
We do things in our national interest as we should. More than any nation in the history of the world, we have set people free. We buy oil; we don’t steal it. I don’t give a damn why the Islamofascists want us dead. I want them dead first. We could leave Israel tomorrow. We could remove our troops from Mideast soil tomorrow. They still want us dead.
What Ron Paul doesn’t understand, and what the Paulbots don’t understand is that this doesn’t go back to 1920. This goes back centuries. They want us dead. They want Western Civilization dead. They want us all to convert or die.
I do not trust Ron Paul to defend this nation. No matter how much I agree with him on the need to shrink government and expand individual freedom, he can never by my commander in chief.