According to Paul, if we didn’t attempt to treat the cancer it would just choose to go away. After all, the only reason cancer attacks a patient is because doctors exist.
"I share our Founders’ belief that in a free society each citizen must have the right to keep and bear arms. They ratified the Second Amendment knowing that this right is the guardian of every other right, and they all would be horrified by the proliferation of unconstitutional legislation that prevents law-abiding Americans from exercising this right."
"Without defining the enemy there is no way to know our precise goal nor to know when the war is over."
Not exactly the words of a fellow would would sit there and let cancer grow until it chooses to go away. The cancer needs to be identified and eradicated. Ron Paul seems to advocate a smarter way of dealing with our enemies. He most certainly does not advocate giving into them.