Posted on 10/14/2007 8:00:02 AM PDT by theothercheek
Have you ever noticed that presidential candidates Ron Paul (R-TX) and Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) sound like conjoined twins when it comes to the Iraq War (second item) and U.S. foreign policy? Here’s how Paul answered Chris Matthews’ question on whether we went to war in Iraq over in the most recent Republican debate:
It's neocolonialism that you have to maintain your supply routes and your natural resources.
But I think there's still a lot of those kind of people around, and they believe - you know, we were told it was about oil and jobs when it first started in 1990, and this is just a continuation of that war. Indeed, this war is a mistake; it was a mistake to go in. It's very costly, and it has a lot of economic ramifications. We're going broke. We have this huge deficit. We're spending nearly a trillion dollars with maintaining our empire overseas, and that's a cost. Right now we owe foreigners $2.7 trillion. No wonder they have money to come back in here and buy stuff up, and then we object; but that has to do with our monetary system, as well as our foreign policy.
His libertarian supporters insist that every breath Paul takes and every move he makes is within the scope and intent of the U.S. Constitution. For instance, Paul believes the Iraq war is illegitimate, because Congress did not authorize military intervention with a formal declaration of war – a point he again brought up in the debate.
An editorial in the New Hampshire Union Leader accused him of "unrealistic and dangerous isolationism," because he "seems to think that the only national security threat America faces is from a direct military assault on our soil." In his response to that editorial, Paul’s explanation that "a non-interventionist foreign policy is not an isolationist foreign policy" clearly demonstrates just how unrealistic and dangerous his ideological purity is. The Stiletto gives this round to the Union Leader.
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THe only thing left for Paul to say is he wants to create a Department of Peace.
Non-interventionist foreign policy makes the world a dark and scary place.
The fact that we are slowly going broke has little to do with Iraq or any other part of defense. And, Ron knows that full well. That's why his other qualities are attractive, though not attractive enough to garner the necessary delegates.
Why the creation or the defense of an Islamic Republic is worth even iota of military assistance, much less even one soldier's life, is a question those who criticize Ron Paul don't seem to want to answer.
To be an Isolationist requires a great deal of thinking to develop a certain line of reasoning. That line of reasoning is generally totally incorrect, but it still takes time and brain power to develop.
Dr. Paul is not an Isolationist. He is just a wacko.
Oh well. If we didn't cut and run from getting bin Laden dead or alive, we would not be in Iraq doing the cakewalk.
Try playing that strategy in the game of RISK. Accumulate an obscene amount of armies, then retreat to North America and just stay there playing defense. Try it. It was one of my favorite lessons for other students in college when we'd stay up late with board games.
The flake duo .....America at the extreme
The reason they sound the same is because they are both idiots.
Why the creation or the defense of an Islamic Republic is worth even iota of military assistance, much less even one soldier’s life, is a question those who criticize Ron Paul don’t seem to want to answer.
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Or could it be that Paulista don’t want to hear the answer?
Oh no.... Not again
Adjustment appropriate!!
Actually come to think of it, both fit...
We need a third party with Paul and Kucinich running it. Everybody needs a home. Let’s encourage them to join up and give people a place to stay. I’ll support that. Lets have flophouses full of stoners empty out to campaign for them.
I agree with Paul that the government is too big. But he needs to realize that it’s got to be operative in some cases, like dealing with potential enemies in the Middle East.
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