[RichInOC]

[jaw hits floor!]

[HereInTheHeartland]

That was you?? I stream WHO here at work.
I heard the question and heard him trying to hedge on the answer.
He didn’t want to answer, but eventually said that Iran wouldn’t dare use nukes if they got them because of retaliation.
But yes he wouldn’t stop the ship.

[jdm]

bump.

[Sybeck1]

So, if he was president back in the early 60’s, he wouldn’t have blockaded Cuba?

[Abathar]

That is just scary as hell DFU. Great question to bring some sunlight on his foreign policy thinking, thanks for doing it.

[DejaJude]

I wanted to challenge him further over Iran's stated goal of destroying Israel, but I was apparently cut off by the host and couldn't do it.

Too bad. I wonder what his answer would be if Iran had used those missiles to destroy Israel. Would he retaliate then? Or would he only act if they targeted us?

[Obadiah]

As one smart FReeper has as his tagline:

“Ron Paul put the cuckoo in cocopuffs”

[mnehring]

ping

[evad]

An excellent question..
and exactly the answer I would expect from this screwball.

[doug from upland]

Ronald Reagan and John Kennedy would have boarded and seized the ship or sunk it. Ted Kennedy would have boarded it and joined them for happy hour.

[CatoRenasci]

Doug, great work!

There is no question that Paul is completely unqualified to be President.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

OMG THE HORROR!

What did Bush do when NK test-fired nuclear weapons? Or when Iranian troops crossed into Iraq and supplied the insurgents with IEDs?

Doug, your game of "gotcha" ain't going nowhere. Enjoy Paul's victory today in Iowa.

[Ouderkirk]

Doug, we all assumed that Ron Paul was an unqualified nitwit with respect to foreign policy. Thanks for confirming what we instinctively knew.

[lormand]

Great work DFU

Ron Paul has already stated that America only needs one Submarine with nukes as a defense and deterent.

Therefore, the US military would face a fate worse than Carter and Clinton combined. When the US military is weakened, we all know what happens next.

[ctdonath2]

After complimenting him on his commitment to the Constitution, I asked a question about foreign policy.

With a desperate and honest desire to avoid the unavoidable emotional baggage on the subject: what is the Constitutional grounds for a President doing exactly that (stopping a nuke shipment from NK to Iran)?

[Rick.Donaldson]

His answer was stunning. He very quickly answwered, "No, why would we do that?" After that question back to me, he commented that there was almost zero chance of that happening. He said that if he knew they planned to use them against us, he would take action. But they know they would be obliterated.

As someone who works in and for the government, now for over 30 years, I'm telling you Paul is completely out of touch with reality. They, being Korea and Iran, ALREADY KNOW we would obliterate them... ASSUMING we have someone with the testicular fortitude in office to actually take some action.

That person is NOT Ron Paul.

The Koreans, Iranians (and most ME countries), as well as Russian and China want to see the United States completely dismantled and destroyed. They don't want to do it VIOLENTLY yet, but that time is COMING sooner than people think.

If Ron Paul thinks it won't be in his life time, he might be right if he is sitting in the White House on the day it is vaporized by Chinese made missiles and nuclear weapons from the Middle East.

[tpanther]

I hear that insane argument alllll the time...”they know we will obliterate them”.

Earth to Ru Paul...these people are genocidal homicidal SUICIDAL sociopathic maniacs! That you don’t get that by now can only mean you’re absolutely never EVER going to get it!

If they’re willing to die to take out a handful of people on buses or cafes, imagine their reward with 72 virgins if they detonated a dirty bomb and killed tens of thousands?

Ru Paul is a clown.

[jrooney]

Great job Doug! Ron Paul is a disgrace. This just proves it once again.

[lormand]

[Larry Lucido]

He said that if he knew they planned to use them against us, he would take action. But they know they would be obliterated.

Ayn Rand's "stolen concept." He relies on a pre-existing condition (our ability to obliterate someone) which he himself would have opposed developing in the first place.

Ayn Rand, even as nutty as she could be sometimes, would have kicked his ass.