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You know, I didn’t really live through the Cold War, but looking back, I have to wonder, what the hell were we scared of? In hindsight, it’s almost silly. Its like Chuck Liddell being scared of the guy that invented Tae-Bo.

this is from post 222, another Paul Supporter, George W. Bush. Take your question up with him, and it may do him well to consider the type of thinking that his well-reasoned but spurious arguments lead to.

"Ron Paul is and always was one of the leading advocates for Reagan's Star Wars programs. Under many scenarios for those space weapons' use, he was supporting the concept that during nuclear war with the Soviets, a president would necessarily have to take the country to war unilaterally because half the world would be laid waste before you could call more than half a dozen congressmen. "

You know, I didn’t really live through the Cold War, but looking back, I have to wonder, what the hell were we scared of?

Well, young man, though the threat was overblown at times and used to justify a lot of porkbarreling and useless weapons research and production that just happened to be located in the districts of key members of Congress and over the objections of the Pentagon itself, there was a very real threat from Communism, both to us and to our free allies around the world.

Ronald Reagan was right. They were an evil empire because empires are, by their nature, evil to any real American. We could only deal with them from a position of strength. And to "trust but verify" on disarmament treaties. And yet, that same Reagan also ended the Cold War and offered to grant our Star Wars defensive technology to those same Soviets as well. Ron Paul was one of his earliest supporters, even in 1976 when Reagan narrowly missed snatching the nomination from lame Gerald Ford who then lost the general to the disaster known as Jimmuh Carter.