Words spoken like a true left wing Democrat, greenie, etc.
If anything, the government has not explained the threat from islamofascism strongly enough. You really ought to get out more and read some books from that side of things. Yes, if anything, the threat has been lowballed.
Underestimated.
As for saying that FDR turning to congress for a declaration of war is a predicate for what a President should do in case we come under attack today, including nuclear attack, that is just dangerously ignorant. Nuclear attacks, or imminent terrorist attacks by non nuclear but massively lethal means, do not leave anyone with the luxury of time to wait and gather congress perhaps from the 4 winds and craft legislation and debate ad nauseum. Even the congress itself is likely to come under attack as is the executive leadership, should an enemy plan carefully and have the lethality at hand to bring down on us. And all happening in a span of minutes.
And you ought to read about the Cold War threat of mutally assured destruction that we lived under for many, many years, and which has not completely gone away with possible threats from Russia and China and Iran.
The Cold War threat from the USSR putting offensive missles in Cuba, just 90 miles from our shores, was very, very real. If allowed to play out, there would have been no time or opportunity whatsoever for what Paul opines. That is why all Americans except Communists and hopeless pacifists were scared and outraged by those missles. That’s why they trained school children to hit the floor and hide under their desks in those days, although we know now that this wouldn’t have protected any of us.
And now we have Chavez and some fellows of his in Latin America allying themselves with Iran, which is working feverishly on long range and nuclear cabable missles.
I feel embarrassed just bothering to answer this utterly braindead contention.
May the good Lord save America from clowns like this with big mouths and the ability to raise gazillions of bucks from other clowns like Soros and many ordinary dupes on the Internet.
And may he save us from the loose, but potentially deadly, alliance between the Ron Paul dupes and the Soros radical left zealots who have seemed to reach similar conclusions about our national security.
LOL!! I've been called many things, but left-wing isn't one of them. Btw, my dad has said I'm "to the right of Attila the Hun." (I don't agree, but it's just funny to me how people can have skewed perceptions.)
As far as the rest of your post, I have read and I've done research. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that there isn't a threat. Just that I think there is a bigger threat...you think I'm underestimating the threat of Islamfascism, well I think you're underestimating the threat from those who are subverting our country from within. You have a lot more faith in our government than I do, and we apparently have a different view on their honesty.