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Ron Paul is wrong on the battle for Iraq, and the war on terror. Period. These are important things.
Can’t go for it, no, thank you.

Yep.

You gotta admire the way the Paulie Girls keep coming ‘up the slope’ however....(chuckle)

Ron Paul is not wrong on the WOT. He voted to authorize military action in Afghanistan that would have killed or captured Osama Bin Laden and as many of his supporters as possible, by ANY MEANS NECESSARY, as quickly as possible.

Sadly, President Bush and the Congress have led us down the path of nation building, which is never good for our country, is not a traditional conservative issue, and which GWB campaigned against in 2000.

We are quickly approaching the Six Year Anniversary of the most deadly and horrific terrorist attacks in the history of our country and all we have to show for it is trillions of dollars of debt, thousands of American soldiers dead, a debacle in Iraq that we should not have gotten involved in, a stronger Al Queda, no Osama Bin Laden and an emboldened movement of Islamic theocratic fascists across the globe.

Meanwhile, our own borders are porous points of entry for drugs, illegal immigrations, and of course, homicidal theocratic Islamic fascists.

We should isolate and marginalize these fascist bastards but we need to recognize that we will destroy ourselves in the process if we neglect our own security and prosperity in the process.

Ronald Reagan said it best in his memoirs:

http://www.ronaldreagan.com/leb.html

In the weeks immediately after the (Beirut) bombing, I believed the last thing we should do was turn tail and leave. If we did that, it would say to the terrorists of the world that all it took to change Americans foreign policy was to murder some Americans. If we walked away, we’d also be giving up on the moral commitment to Israel that had originally sent our marines to Lebanon. We’d be abandoning all the progress made during almost two years of trying to mediate a settlement in the Middle East. We’d be saying that the sacrifice of those marines had been for nothing. We’d be inviting the Russians to supplant the United States as the most influential superpower in the Middle East. After more than a year of fighting and mounting chaos in Beirut, the biggest winner would be Syria, a Soviet client. Yet, the irrationality of Middle Eastern politics forced us to rethink our policy there.

How do you deal with a people driven by such a religious zeal that they are willing to sacrifice their lives in order to kill an enemy simply because he doesn’t worship the same God they do? People who believe that if they do that, they’ll go instantly to heaven? In the Iran-Iraq war, radical Islamic fundamentalists sent more than a thousand young boys - teenagers and younger - to their deaths by telling them to charge and detonate land mines - and the boys did so joyously because they believed, “Tonight, we will be in Paradise.”

I’m not sure how we could have anticipated the catastrophe at the marine barracks. Perhaps we didn’t appreciate fully enough the depth of the hatred and the complexity of the problems that make the Middle East such a jungle. Perhaps the idea of a suicide car bomber committing mass murder to gain instant entry to Paradise was so foreign to our own values and consciousness that it did not create in us the concern for the marines’ safety that it should have. Perhaps we should have anticipated that members of the Lebanese military whom we were trying to assist would simply lay down their arms and refuse to fight their own countrymen. In any case, the sending of the marines to Beirut was the source of my greatest regret and my greatest sorrow as president. Every day since the death of those boys, I have prayed for them and their loved ones.

Ron Paul is a nice quirky guy who will make a good back bencher as he wins his Rep. seat again. He is not ready for even Senate primetime. I truly wish that all but the top 4 would simply quit, support someone else and get ready for their own local elections.