[billbears]

After the U.S. was attacked at Pearl Harbor, even the America Firsters were ready to embrace war; unfortunately, they weren’t willing, in the 1920’s and 1930’s, to take the kinds of actions that might have staved off a world war.

Course poor Max doesn't bother with the facts that Wilson's interventionist policies in the 1910's laid the groundwork for WWII. Nah, Max doesn't let facts get in the way of his rant. Great comments section at the bottom of Max's article. I don't think a lot of his readers agree with Max....

Even many libertarians dissent from Paul’s crabbed view of America’s role abroad: see, for instance, this Wall Street Journal article.

I know a lot of libertarians Max. And Randy Bartlett doesn't speak for anyone I know

I got to wonder though. Why is such an important fellow as Max writing a hit piece about Dr. Paul. I thought he was a 'gadfly' with a following of 'spammers'....

“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they attack you, then you win.” Mahatma Gandhi

[SJackson]

Course poor Max doesn't bother with the facts that Wilson's interventionist policies in the 1910's laid the groundwork for WWII.

How can that be if Ron Paul would embrace the policies of Wilson over those of Ronald Reagan

HE: And under President Reagan we built up our defenses., we built up all these anti-communist insurgencies in Afghanistan, in Nicaragua, we putting the Pershings into Western Europe, etc., etc. The point is: Would you have supported any of those of measures, on the grounds that you are… we shouldn’t have done any of this because it would be provoking, somehow, that which would come back and haunt us?

RP: I don’t think that policy has served us well. I think that…

HE: The Reagan Doctrine hasn’t served us well?

RP: Well, I would go back to the Wilson Doctrine. [Indiscernible talking in background]You can’t isolate WWII and post-WWII without looking at the overall change of policy after WWI.

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=21840

[SJackson]

You know, for a model I’d go back to Bob LaFolette if I were Ron. He was a Republican, so adamently anti-war TR thought he should be hung. And he’s a hero to parts of the anti-war progressives today.

[ChurtleDawg]

exactly-—interventionism is more of the cause of problems than isolationism.

look at Iran-—if we hadn’t started messing around in Iran in the 1950s and helping the shah seize power from a democratically elected government, there would have been no Islamic revolution in 1979