If you limit National Security to Iraq, that may be true. But our monetary policies are just as much a threat. We cannot continue what we’re doing without consequences. If China unpegs the yuan, we’re screwed- if Saudi Arabia pulls their investments from our banks, we’re screwed. There’s quite a list of other financial vulnerabilities too, which become a security issue. Wars are expensive, especially when you fight with technology.
“If you limit National Security to Iraq, that may be true. But our monetary policies are just as much a threat. We cannot continue what we’re doing without consequences. If China unpegs the yuan, we’re screwed- if Saudi Arabia pulls their investments from our banks, we’re screwed. There’s quite a list of other financial vulnerabilities too, which become a security issue. Wars are expensive, especially when you fight with technology.”
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Spot on. To that I add that the terrorists are doing to us pretty much what we did to the Soviets, forcing us to spend enormous amounts of money we have to borrow to keep up an arms race we cannot sustain with Social Security and Medicare going insolvent around 2010, not to mention prescription health care and next up, national health care and the Kyoto blackmail. Old terrorists will die off but new ones enter the ranks. Indefinitely.
I don’t think Paul will get us out of Iraq as fast as he claims. Opposition from Congress and the Joint Chiefs will create tension but it may have the wonderful effect of forcing the Iraqi goverment to find its spine and begin governing. If that were to hapen, it would prove a stroke of political genius. If Paul focuses singlemindedly on Iraqi withdrawl, he risks putting the rest of his agenda at grave risk from a Congress that will likely be quite volatile (a/k/a childish, as per usual).
Finally, by all means end federal involvement in the so-called war on drugs and let the states and the 10th Amendment take it over and start executing on the supply side.
Did I mean that literally or figuratively? You decide.
The 'grassroots' info is what Im curious about. A politician's website is about useless AFAIC, just look at mcromnebee's 'conservative' words.
Im looking for records and the non publicised local info...and his voting RECORD speaks volumes...
If anything RP is a bit too conservative/constructionist for our particular wartime agenda, but unless he is certifiably insane LIKE THE REST OF THE PRESENT FIELD [well maybe theyre just EVIL] hes looking worthy of 'compromise'...
If I ever hold my nose to vote again it will be right, not left...
LFOD...