[RegulatorCountry]

Out of all the various and sometimes fractious factions in the Republican coalition, nothing matches the invective flung at the libertarian wing by the neocon wing. To my knowledge, Ron Paul never has supported foreign aid to anyone. He views it as unconstitutional. This has gotten spun into antisemitism because it would mean ending aid to Israel. I support Israel myself, and don't begrudge aid sent by us to Israel. But, I understand completely where Paul is coming from on this. It's very unfair and has become libelous.

[sauropod]

RuPaul had blamed America for 9/11. He said it was actions we did that caused the event.

This bespeaks a profound ignorance of the ideology of a whole lot of people that are located over there.

[dennisw]

Out of all the various and sometimes fractious factions in the Republican coalition, nothing matches the invective flung at the libertarian wing by the neocon wing. To my knowledge, Ron Paul never has supported foreign aid to anyone. He views it as unconstitutional. This has gotten spun into antisemitism because it would mean ending aid to Israel. I support Israel myself, and don't begrudge aid sent by us to Israel. But, I understand completely where Paul is coming from on this. It's very unfair and has become libelous.

I agree with your take but check out the followers he has inspired. The ones I see on the internet are very anti-Israel. As many are left-libertarians as are right-libertarians. "Stop all foreign aid"--- To a certain extent that is code for "stop aid to Israel". They don't like Israel and have bought into the leftist/Muslim narrative on it

[FreeDeerHawk]

I don’t understand why we have to provide money to our allies. If the alliance is mutually beneficial,why do we have to give them money? Isn’t the mutual benefit good enough? That’s what I don’t get about foreign aid. If they are truly our allies,why do we have to pay them? I don’t mean just Israel,I mean any allies to whom we send money.