Ron Paul Ignores Iran's Treachery (GOP presidential candidate demonstrates appalling ignorance)

American Thinker ^ | 11/11/2011 | Reza Kahlili

[SeekAndFind]

Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul is demonstrating an appalling ignorance on the Iranian nuclear issue and the threat it poses to world security. In fact, several times during the recent GOP debates he blamed the animosity against the U.S. in the Middle East on America's foreign policy.

Paul recently argued on "Fox News Sunday" that sanctions should be removed altogether to get Iran to act differently and that the U.S. response to Iran's nuclear pursuit was an "overreaction." He added that Iran does not pose a threat to either the U.S. or the region. The congressman from Texas insists that a better art of persuasion would be to offer friendship, the way the U.S. approached the Soviets and Chinese in the 1970s and 1980s.

So Paul not only has shown that he has no understanding of the murderous radicals who rule Iran but has a dangerous lapse of memory. President Obama at first tried to do exactly what Paul argues now should be done -- and failed miserably.

When Obama took office in 2009, he immediately changed the U.S. approach toward Iran, believing that the mullahs would only change behavior if a kinder, gentler approach were implemented. His appeasement of the mullahs started when he sent his video message on the occasion of the Iranian New Year in 2009, stating his desire for friendship with the Iranian leaders. That was followed by a letter to the Iranian supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in which he reiterated that America did not intend to interfere in Iran's internal matters and that it respected the sovereignty of the Islamic state and that he desired better relations between the two countries.

[John D]

Just like nazi germany. after all it was "only" Jews they want to kill.

The surrender monkey is the Nevile Chamberlain of the 21st century. Cut and run thinks that if we appease our enemies enough they will leave us alone. It did not work in the 20th century, and it will not work now.

[therightliveswithus]

Ron Paul is nuts

[Notary Sojac]

I'm not sure what the real difference is between:

Ron Paul, who says we should do nothing about Iran's nuke program, and as President would do nothing:

and George W. Bush, who talked and talked and talked and talked and talked and talked and talked and talked and talked and talked and talked and talked and talked and talked and talked about the Iranian threat for eight years, and did nothing.

[crosshairs]

Ron Paul is nuts

That would explain why he left the medical practice for a career in congress. However, there is a lot more money to be made in congress, so maybe he's crazy like a fox.

[jmc813]

Ron Paul 1488 The Final Solution for America The two eights of the number 1488 stand for the eigth letter of the alphabet: H. And the two of them together form H H or Heil Hitler. The fourteen part of the number 1488 stands for those fourteen words that every white supremacist knows: "We must secure the existence of our people and a future for White children. (hat tip Bill Levinson)

What the hell is that supposed to mean?

[Paul Ross]

This may be as alarming as implied, but I have tapped my own nuclear information resources to assess possibilities here.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks SeekAndFind.

[justiceseeker93]

Ron Paul: great on domestic policy, awful on foreign policy. That may sound very simple, but it's pretty darn accurate.

[guitarplayer1953]

I would suggest that you all read Big Oil & Their Bankers In The Persian Gulf: Four Horsemen, Eight Families & Their Global Intelligence, Narcotics & Terror Network Dean Henderson. This book will open your eyes of have big oil has dominated our foreign policy for the last 60 years.

[rmlew]

An Iran without nuclear weapons is a pain. An Iran with nukes is a threat.

[RedMDer]

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[ejonesie22]

The fact that they have orbited satellites not with standing of course...

[DugwayDuke]

“I don’t know why so many have trouble grasping just how insane these twelvers really are.”

Yes, but such a failure can be extraordinarily convenient if you want to believe that you can avoid confronting those twelvers. If your position is that Iran can be ‘deterred’, then admitting that they are religious extremists who believe their mission is to wash the world in blood and usher in the rule of the 12th Iman is rather inconvenient.

[Impy]

It’s a shame. If only he was passible instead of Kucinichian.

[Designer]

"The two eights of the number.."

Your post is just bizarre.

The "Truthers" hold not particular advantage over your ability to invent.

[hinckley buzzard]

Despite their subjugation by Islam the Iranians have resisted arabization. They are Persians proud of their ancient heritage and have only well-deserved contempt for the sand rat ragheads. That they have been taken over and ruled by these arab-inspired primitive religious savages is a shame.

Nevertheless they are under the control of a police state pure and simple, a state which can and might do anything conceivable. Paul's blindness to this simple reality is inexplicable.

[hinckley buzzard]

The difference is that Bush is not running anymore. Otherwise your point is right on.

[KevinDavis]

This is the same type of attitude we had before WWII. We never thought that Japan will never hit us. Well they did.

Never never underestimate the bad guys......