I understand.
Some of us have been trying to get Constitutional Congressmen for quite a number of years, too, but since we have not been entirely successful, we find ourselves with less than ideal representatives in Congress.
You're right, we need both in order to make real progress, but we now have an opportunity to sieze the Bully Pulpit, which is worth a lot in terms of public opinion and public pressure being put on Congress.
Ordinarily, I would not advocate placing much trust in any particular political candidate, but sometimes a candidate comes along who I can get behind.
As to your objection to Ron Paul's position on the Iraq war, would you be so kind as to explain just exactly why you object?
Please, no hysterics or name-calling, as we have heard all that before.
You haven’t heard hysterics or name-calling from me. Here’s my position.
Like it or not, we’re in Iraq. No one consulted me about going there, but since we are, I don’t want us to leave as we left Vietnam.
We’re making great progress there, and it’s being made at the local level. It seems to me that’s a validation of the argument that people shouldn’t expect a government (even an Iraqi one) to solve their problems. Regardless, while progress is being made, it doesn’t seem the time to pull out.
Paul doesn’t recognize the consequences of failure in Iraq. But he’s consistent. Neither does he recognize the consequences of our pull-out in Vietnam. He says Vietnam is now a trading partner as if there was no Cold War—of which Vietnam was a part.
Paul also doesn’t recognize the value of a free South Korea, or of that war’s place as part of the Cold War.
In brief, Paul denies the historical reality of the worldwide battle against Communism just, in my view, he denies the present global struggle with Islamofascism.
I don’t believe that Islamofascists will be satisfied with our pull-out of the Middle East and an apology. Those people are still pissed off about what happened more than a thousand years ago. How will withdrawal today make them forgive and forget?
We may disagree about that, but that is my belief and that’s why I can’t support Paul.