1 posted on
12/19/2007 11:36:39 AM PST by
SJackson
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To: SJackson
is ru paul also going to kiss chavez’s butt while he is at it. The more quotes I hear from this clown the more I think soros owns him
85 posted on
12/19/2007 12:38:19 PM PST by
sticker
To: SJackson
Gee, since the most important issue for me is the defense of this nation, it looks like Ron Paul is working hard to get my vote. Maybe we should turn over to the Chinese all of our anti-missile technology so they will like us more.
86 posted on
12/19/2007 12:39:31 PM PST by
doug from upland
(Stopping Hillary should be a FreeRepublic Manhattan Project)
To: SJackson
Seeking campaign funding from Iran no doubt.
To: SJackson
Ron Paul is an idiot. Ron Paul wants to play nice with Jew haters.
109 posted on
12/19/2007 1:16:14 PM PST by
Brandie
(Vote for a Conservative! Islam is a Death Cult, is that simple enough to understand!)
To: SJackson
Paul says if the U.S. relieved pressure on Iran, people would breathe a sign of relief, interest rates probably would not go up and oil prices probably would drop.and we would have peace in our time.Not
110 posted on
12/19/2007 1:16:19 PM PST by
mjp
(Live & let live. I don't want to live in Mexico, Marxico, or Muslimico. Statism & high taxes suck)
To: SJackson
They’re coming to take me away, ha-haaa.
They’re coming to take me away, ho-ho, hee-hee, ha-haaa
To: SJackson
Republican Ron Paul
He is definitely the top Republican of choice amongst the Freakazoids here in Portland...sort of a Ralph Nader with personality.
116 posted on
12/19/2007 1:24:33 PM PST by
crazyhorse691
(The faithful will keep their heads down, their powder dry and hammer at the enemies flanks.)
To: SJackson; lormand
BUMP!
124 posted on
12/19/2007 1:45:33 PM PST by
reagan_fanatic
(Ron Paul put the cuckoo in my Cocoa Puffs)
To: SJackson
137 posted on
12/19/2007 2:36:56 PM PST by
#1CTYankee
(That's right, I have no proof. So what of it??)
To: SJackson
I gather that he has been committed to an asylum someplace?
141 posted on
12/19/2007 2:56:19 PM PST by
ANGGAPO
(LayteGulfBeachClub)
To: SJackson
151 posted on
12/19/2007 6:39:39 PM PST by
G8 Diplomat
(Creatures are divided into 6 kingdoms: Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Monera, Protista, & Saudi Arabia)
To: SJackson
The problem is, since 1979 Iran has been at war with the US via every indirect, asymmetric, plausibly deniable means they could contrive short of an overt declaration of war which would require the US to do the same.
Expressed in Ron Paul’s own self-proclaimed Libertarian terminology, Iran has been the sponsor and impetus for hundreds of incidents of “initiation of force” which have cost thousands of lives.
There is absolutely nothing in the Libertarian doctrine of “non-initiation of force” which mandates that it only applies to force initiated by an overt attack from a nation-state’s armed forces and/or a formal declaration of war a la traditional Westphalian international law doctrine. Paul’s insistence on such is completely arbitrary and self-serving.
The irony is that Ron Paul is not only wrong from a geopolitical perspective, he’s even wrong as a libertarian. His refusal to acknowledge the historical record of Iran’s deadly “initiations of force” by arbitrarily circumscribing the definition and the very meaning of the words is the political equivalent of an addict’s denial of his addiction to his supposed principles.
As Thomas Sowell recently wrote, there is a real problem when we allow our principles to become fetishes.
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