He does make a rather cogent argument for a foreign policy of non-interventionism here.
Of course he does, but as par, the writer arguably fails to recognize that if one wishes to be a super power, a foreign policy of non-intervention is a liberal myth, one mainly reserved for liberalist, internationalist, isolationist, and transnationalist political paradigms.
Duck buddy, because here it comes...
Not really.
“Neoconservatives who have come to power in both the Democratic and Republican parties argue that the U.S. must ether confront every evil in every corner of the globe or risk danger at home. We need to “fight them over there” they say, so we don’t have to “fight them over here.”
Ummm....no, there are a great many places we ignore. Darfur, for example. We aren’t trying to police India or Venezuela.
But when the oil our economy runs on is threatened in GW1, or when we need to shake things up after an attack on our soil killing 3000 people - then YES! Take the fight to them, and fight them on THEIR turf.
Perhaps Paul would like to wait until we have suicide attacks in our schools, or allow the terrorists a secure home base to plan future assaults.
We will never know how many US-bound terrorists were killed while attending "IED 101" in Iraq and Afghanistan. I suspect it's more than a couple.
I have no problem with Dr. Paul’s five points.
I would add a sixth: “Institute a strong national border so that other countries don’t try to come inside us.”
We have been in Europe for 65 years, since 1944.
We have been in South Korea for 59 years, since 1950.
We have been in Japan for 64 years, since 1945.
We have been in Bosnia for 14 years, since 1995.
We have been in Kosovo for 10 years, since 1999.
We have been in Kuwait for 18 years, since 1991.
We have been in Afghanistan since 2001, and in Iraq since 2003.
No one other than Canada, Britain and Australia, actually help us to maintain the peace with substantial expense and the blood of their young.
We take no one’s oil and no one’s land. We have freed hundreds and hundreds of millions of people since 1944, and our generosity to them gave them a chance at life an liberty.
Yet if America was attacked, there is no doubt in my mind, that no one would lift a finger to help us, preferring to use those fingers to pick through our carcass.
I’m done with being the world’s policeman.
You mess with us, your ass gets kicked into next Thursday.
No more nation building, no more UN, no more building democracy for an ungrateful world.
No one respects America in the world because we don’t demand it. Frankly, I don’t give a fig for “world opinion”.
Any attacks or provocations need to be answered with an overwhelming response to end even the thought of future provocations. The world will learn good behavior faster than Pavlov’s dog.
And that won;t happen until we get a governemnt in DC that actually loves this country. Right now, they are staying awake at night dreaming of ways to weaken and plunder their own citizens.
A pox upon them.