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To: SJackson
He's talking about the problems have been here since the Wilson doctrine. Wilson's needless intervention in WWI is what laid the groundwork for WWII. If you bothered listening to his speeches you'd understand what he was saying. But please, feel free to cherry pick out whatever you believe supports your position...
18 posted on 08/07/2007 10:59:54 AM PDT by billbears (Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. --Santayana)
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To: billbears
Let's see, fair to say the Wilson Doctrine would encompass things like our entry into WWI, the draft, making the world safe for democracy and all that. Post WWI it involved nation building, actually creation, and the League of Nations. I can't see Paul supporting much of that.

But when Ron Paul says I would go back to the Wilson Doctrine. I'm to believe he really doesn't mean he'd go back to the Wilson Doctrine as he said, but in fact is laying our problem at the feet of Wilson's actions which laid the groundwork for WWII.

Either he has to say what he means, or his supporters have to make the code for the decoder rings available to all.

Why is it every time Ron Paul says something, he doesn't mean it according to his supporters?

That is a rather incoherent interview. My favorite

HE: Follow-up -- thank you -- follow-up question. [Laughter] Take two minutes and tell me the people that you would name to your cabinet or to your official family.

RP: Probably, I won’t do a very good job of that because I haven’t thought that through and there are certainly a lot of friends and –

HE: Well, before you name the cabinet people, what cabinet departments would you want to have remain?

RP: Well I guess we could have a Justice Department. I guess we could have a State Department, and I guess we could have a Defense Department, and maybe one or two others more but not many more than that. I mean… We need to think about a Republican form of government. I believe in a republic -- little “R” republic -- and we don’t need a Department of Education and a Department of Energy. We used to win elections on that but not any more. We doubled the size of all those programs.

I won't do a very good job of that [selecting cabinet members], but I've got a lot of friends.

Presidential timber all right.

27 posted on 08/07/2007 11:20:03 AM PDT by SJackson (isolationism never was, never will be acceptable response to[expansionist] tyrannical governments)
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