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NOTHING in America’s history obviates foreign policy intervention when our own best interests are at stake.

If Ron Paul were President in the early 1800’s we wouldn;t have Florida or the Louisiana Purchase. If he were President instead of Polk, the Mexican Border would run from the Mississippi to Oregon State. And if he were President in 1940 we would be speaking German or Japanese
(if we survived).

There is NO QUESTION that the globalist Bush nation-building experiment in Iraq and Afghanistan was a failure. More than that, it destablized pro-western, relatively rational (by Islamic standards) government through out the Middle East and resulted in more virulently anti-western, dangerous Islamic regimes.

But that doesn’t mean we should neglect the need to destroy the nuclear weapon building capacity of rogue nations like Iran, or support our few strong allies like Israel. Or seek allainces with people who help us against the Red Chinese or threats in our own backyard like Hugo Chavez.

I have tried the Constitution and it worked very well. I suggest Ron Paul should read his history more closely.

As for a crusade against Islam - I would love that very much and would like to see it start here in America.

You seems to think that we are still a nation of some wealth with which to afford a foriegn policy of anything other then self defense. I will ping you if you like to all the threads which discuss on going cuts in government (defense) and job loses in the same if you like. I hate to keep reminding everyone but 43 cents of every dollar spent by the federal government is borrowed money. 43 cents. Or that we have a debt of 16 trillion dollars that is growing by 1.5 trillion dollars a year. And oh by the way our unfunded liability is over 60 trillion dollars. Those are some really scary numbers.

Right now our defense department is hoping, hoping mind you that we might have enough money to maybe defend the pacific rim. Ground wars are out of the question, there just is not enough money for that. Nor is there enough money to do any more in the middle east, we are getting out of there. So unless you have a spare 16 trillion or so to give to Uncle Sam we are stuck with the fact that we are broke and in debt up to our eyeballs.