[SJackson]

For the reality of Ron Paul vs. Ronald Reagan, during his Presidency - on policies from Libya, Grenada and Nicaragua, to the CIA, the War on Drugs and the Constitution

Don't forget Afghanistan, the Reagan policy that led to the toppling of the Trade Center.

[drpix]

You’re right but my quotes come from Paul’s 1988 book. Have you got any quotes from Paul on Afghanistan against Reagan?

[drpix]

The only thing Ron Paul said about Afghanistan in his 1988 book was the following:

"With a noninterventionist foreign policy, citizens would never be forced to subsidize or die for any special interest. Taxes could be used only to secure peace and freedom for America."

"Under these conditions of nonintervention, of course, individuals would never be prohibited from volunteering and contributing their own monies to any foreign cause. Our government is the only legal dealer in weapons of war, usually at a high cost to American taxpayers, as well as danger to our security. Thus the wishes of citizens are violated with every transaction. Americans who want to privately help anti-communists in Cuba, Afghanistan, El Salvador, or Nicaragua should be free to do so, and yet they are not."

RP is less clear on this, but it looks like he is saying that the U.S. government should not be allowed to militarily aid allies in any circumstances, but private citizen should be allowed to militarily aid even our worst enemies.