Read Ron Paul’s foreign policy opinion, and then make your case against it. I can’t.
Excerpts:
“It is our true policy to steer clear of entangling alliances with any portion of the foreign world.” – George Washington
Thomas Jefferson summed up the noninterventionist foreign policy position perfectly in his 1801 inaugural address: “Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations — entangling alliances with none.” Washington similarly urged that we must, “Act for ourselves and not for others,” by forming an “American character wholly free of foreign attachments.”
Dr Paul's claims he would favor “going back to a traditional isolationist US Foreign policy”. It demonstrates Dr Paul is completely ignorant of even the most basic grasp of US History. It is Dr Paul's simple minded inability to deal in facts instead of pat political dogmas, that renders him an fringe irrelevance on the modern US political scene.
Paul likes to claim the “foundering fathers were isolationists”.
No they were not.
The founders fought an Undeclared Naval war on Revolutionary France and launched putative expeditions against the Barbary Pirates. They engaged with Napoleon to buy Louisiana and drove the Spanish out of most of Florida. They fought another war with the Brits from 1812-1815 that had NOTHING to do with “national defense”
During the supposed “Isolationist” era between WW1 and 2 the US military waged any number of punitive wars in Central American, and Caribbean nations. The US also maintained a strong military presences in the Philippines and China.
Defending the National Interests of the USA has never involved doing nothing beyond cowering in bunkers on American borders as Dr Paul would have his worshipers believe.