well, I think Paul is right. The only way to destroy the greatest nation on earth is to provoke us to destory ourselves. These thugs and criminals are incapable of doing it themselves.
And our foreign policy is not helping, supporting the Saudi criminals and Egyptian tyrants, plus, look at what is happening in Pakistan, 10 billion wasted to spread the military socialism and the money is spent against India and we expect terrorism to decrease? If I was a Pakistani citizen I would be upset over the support of the United States, financially and politically, to the criminal Musharaf who has thrown thousands of citizens and journalists and opposition leaders in jail and runs a socialistic military junta which is invested in most sectors of the economy with government imposed monopolies.
So, I think Paul is not so far off in his comments, in fact, I think he is correct.
Even with the help of Fifth Columnists like Ron?
You think the enemy’s only goal is to destroy the greatest nation on earth?
You think it isn’t satisfying enough to them for a city to smoke or a playground to run red or a carload of subway commuters to panic and die?
You are one naive fool.
Whatever you say, President Carter. That philosophy of seeking purity in our allies in the face of Islamic nutcases at the gates really worked out well in Iran, didn't it. Good thing we got rid of that nasty, corrupt Shaw.
What will it take for you to understand that the enemies of Islamists are, by definition, our friends? No matter how corrupt you claim them to be (See Shaw of Iran), they can in no way be as bad as the lunatics seeking to overthrow them.
What you're missing is that there's a lot of damage to be done between "nothing" and "destroying the country" and some of us have no desire or inclination to tolerate the middle ground.
I don't fear terrorists "destroying the country" per se. What I fear - or rather, want to avoid - is terrorism being continually and neverendingly wielded as a tactic against our country - to weaken us, to undermine our will, to extort us into folding up. When terrorism is used by states against us it's usually not to "destroy" us but rather to achieve some geopolitical aim of said state.
The stupidest thing we could do in the face of states which do this would be to telegraph to them (1) that we will indeed capitulate to demands communicated via terrorism and that (2) we will refuse, a priori, to associate terrorism with states. This is the suicidal, idiotic mindset which makes terrorism (deniable, proxy asymmetric warfare) a profitable tactic in the first place. And of course, both (1) and (2) are prominent features of Ron Paul's mindset.
If I was a Pakistani citizen I would be upset over the support of the United States, financially and politically, to the criminal Musharaf who has thrown thousands of citizens and journalists and opposition leaders in jail and runs a socialistic military junta which is invested in most sectors of the economy with government imposed monopolies.
Even if the U.S. were not doing this, and you were a Pakistani citizen, you would probably hate the U.S. for other reasons. For example, there would be some other autocrat in place - and the U.S. would either support him (evil U.S.!) or not support him (evil U.S.!) It really doesn't take much.