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"Paul is spot on.....about everything, including Iraq. We're going to learn the same lesson there that we're now learning the hard way about this debt-drowned economy. We've spent untold billions of dollars and over three thousand American lives to turn Iraq into a Christian-free zone and eventually, an Islamic republic."

The only difference between the neocons and the libs is that the necons want "a Big Daddy government" and the libs want "a Big Brother government".

I am a grown-up. I need neither "a parent" nor "a sibling" telling me how to run my life, nor do I give my consent to them running all over the world furthering their own globalist interests while claiming to act in my name -- especially when they are killing off Christian communities worldwide supposedly "for America".

It's obvious to me, as it should be to most people who really think about it, that one cannot divorce our economic policy from foreign policy. It was this unfettered military interventionism that has contributed greatly to effectively bankrupting this country. And in doing so, it has not made us "stronger" but weaker; we are less secure in every respect, financially, militarily and in vulnerability to attack. The bill on this American bravado in doing anything we want, anywhere in the world we want, just came due -- and it is more than we can afford.

So when I hear people say that they "like Ron Paul's philosophy domestically but not in foreign policy", it may be hard to swallow, but that philosophy is a whole package. It means that either we take responsibility for ourselves, as individuals and as a country, and we act responsibly in our affairs with other countries, or we don't. There is no middle ground on this.

For those that don't want to take responsibility, then the only choices left are to embrace "Big Daddy" or "Big Brother" government, and it doesn't much matter which one we choose because neither of them spell "Freedom" or "America", in any sense that we understand those words to mean.

The only difference between the neocons and the libs is that the necons want "a Big Daddy government" and the libs want "a Big Brother government".

Beautifully explained.

It was this unfettered military interventionism that has contributed greatly to effectively bankrupting this country. And in doing so, it has not made us "stronger" but weaker; we are less secure in every respect, financially, militarily and in vulnerability to attack. The bill on this American bravado in doing anything we want, anywhere in the world we want, just came due -- and it is more than we can afford.

One would think that self-identified "conservatives" would realize that.