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We are the world superpower. Much responsibility comes with that. We did'nt become this by electing Ron Pauls. Your correct. We never should have fought WWII. It was a disaster for freedom. How do you equate the spread of freedom ,democracy and correlate that with the social welfare state? Our little problem is that China, North Korea, Iran, Russia and Venezuala (yes Venezuala) want to kick our but in the worst way. Most have these things called ICBM's and soon to have missile subs. We can't hide between our two oceans. Mr. Paul is living in the 1900th century. Appeasement man, Ron Paul

What a generation of wimps we have created. Perhaps it is all the fear mongering that this administration has engaged in. I grew up with the Soviet Union having 20,000 nuclear missiles targeted on the U.S...by the very country that perfected the nuclear suitcase. A country whose citizens could blend in with our citizenry far easier than middle eastern Muslims ever could. Nuclear annihilation was always a blink away in the cold war but no one we elected to power stirred fear in our population even though the chances of our destruction from the Soviets was always greater then any current threat from nutcase Muslims without a country and hiding in caves could do to us. We didn’t pass civil liberty violations such as the Patriot Act nor did we create fascist government depts. like the Dept. of Homeland Security to make us “feel safe.”

You want to compare our nation building policy in a country barely the size of one of our larger States to our actions following WWII? That's a joke. Do not be a bed wetting coward. If we allow fear to change the very basis of our freedoms that this country was founded on then we are our own worst enemy and give terrorists a victory over us by default. And the curious rant that you went on did not address the substance of my post at all.