There’s a simple way to settle this debate.
Find me a Ron Paul supporter who is not against the war on terror in Iraq? Who understands and supports keeping terrorists on the run by fighting them on foreign soil.
You call it nonsense, yet all of the supporting referrences in the column are legit and credible. That’s fine... if that’s how you see it.
But tell me, are you for keeping the war on terror or foreign soil instead of our own and supporting RP strictly on the basis of his “conservative” domestic comments?
( I didn’t get a good answer for this in another thread.)
If Ron Paul was in charge at the time of the Cuban Missile crisis and negotiations did not convince USSR to remove the missiles, would he use every available weapon in our arsenal including nuclear bombs to obliterate the missiles and launch sites to protect America?
Does Ron Paul’s non-intervention include nuclear missiles in Cuba with China pulling the strings?
“are you for keeping the war on terror or foreign soil instead of our own”
I am in favor of winning the war against Islamism. To do that we need a united America. 3 or 4 years ago if Bush had dealt forcefully with Syria and Iran, he would have had my support. But he dithered and delayed, and now that moment has passed.
It’s reasonable for supporters of the Iraq war to claim that fighting there has spared the USA. I’m not sure that it’s true, but it’s a reasonable argument. There have been several domestic plots over the past 4 years, but excellent police work by NYC and the FBI have caught the bad guys before they could do their dirty deeds. Well done!
If we, in some fantasy, elect Ron Paul President, he brings our troops home, and our country is then attacked again by Islamists, there would be total national unity on a declaration of war and a devastating response. Even Ron Paul, after all, voted for the Afghan war resolution. Personally I like Tom Tancredo’s plan of holding Mecca and Medina hostage for our country’s peace and tranquility. The outrage from CAIR that greeted Tom’s idea was a sure indication he was on the right track. If you like, add Teheran to Tom’s list.
But if we are still mucking around in the Middle East, and our country is attacked again, there will be no national unity on what to do; just endless recriminations.
So to really win the war on Islamism, it may be that the best thing to do is come home, issue dire and draconian warnings, and then await events. It will be a terrible experience for the rest of the world to try to survive without its American super-cop sugar-daddy. But I’m an American, and I really want what’s best for the USA.
I am for fighting the terrorists wherever they are, but I am not for nation building, which is what we are now doing on Iraq.
Regions need to handle their own problems.
That was the essence of the Monore doctrine, that the Americas were our region and that the colonial powers were to stay out.