Not only does Paul want to slash the size of the US military, he wants to undermine our national defense capabilities and eliminate the DHS, CIA and the FBI. Leaving America without any intelligence apparatus whatsoever.
Ron Paul, pacifist and isolationist. What a combo!
Let me ask you this, do you blame the Carter administration’s abandonment of the Shah for problems the US has with Iran today?
On foreign policy issues Ron Paul is more like a liberal Democrat then anything else. He blames America for the 911 attacks, not the terrorists.
Just to be accurate he said that our foreign policy influenced current Islamic attitudes and actions against us and other nations, and for this he is said to "blame America." And, of course, this is only slightly less evil than actually being a terrorist. Imagine my surprise though, when I keep reading that people on this thread, and others, won't support Ron Paul because his foreign policy is so dangerous. Dangerous to whom? Not us, because if that were possible, and his foreign policies could actually lead to us being attacked, then that would mean that those attacks would have been (wait for it...) America's fault! And, that of course, is impossible.
This position that our foreign policy can never backfire, never be wrong, never influence negatively our relations with dangerous rogue powers, and never lead to any attack on our persons proves that America, as regards foreign policy, is infallible. Obama, as our President, can simply not err on this. Regardless of what he does, he simply cannot be at fault if he allows us to be attacked because that would be "blaming America." If he willfully instituted policies which ignored everything Iran did regarding nuclear technology, and they brought a bomb into New York City and set it off it would not be the fault of that policy. And anyone who, after the fact, actually argued that any such policies were dangerous or bad and needed to be changed because they led to such an attack would be guilty of the gross unforgivable sin of "blaming America" since that is exactly what Ron Paul argued and has been attacked for.
So, don't worry people. You are safe. Go ahead and vote for Ron Paul for his domestic views, because no matter what he does in terms of the Middle East nothing that happens will be America's fault, because any policy America has is the right policy, and that can never change.