and thank you for your civility.
I get you on the foreign policy part. frankly im just not that impressed with A.Q. The Soviets were the real deal. They were an existential threat to the US, but A.Q. is just the product of some shady shit we’ve done over the years in the M.E.
I guess that brands me as a “blame america first” jerk but hell, I think it’s silly to assume that our foreign policy has nothing to do with how other countries see us. It wouldn’t be much of a foreign policy if it were true.
I think the US is first among nations in our commitment to liberty, but i dont think that every move we’ve made has been valuable towards that end.
A.Q. did some serious stuff in Somalia, Embassies, Towers twice, the Cole.. and have been quite a seed bed for arms and money and training.
But they’re not the big picture.
The big picture is Islam has been trying to conquer for a thousand years. A small portion of the world has not seen this battle for the since the fall of the Ottoman Turks. This happens to be the part of the world we are most familiar with.
So we think it’s just A.Q. It’s not, it’s serious, it’s deadly, it’s been going on for a very long time, it’s been getting much stronger lately.
Paul is oblivious to this. Of all the candidates only Kucinich is close to this level, IMHO, of ignorance of history and security.
So, in my view, Paul as CINC and chief executive could do great longterm damage at a critical time in world history.