During a debate with then-Vice President Al Gore on Oct. 11, 2000, in Winston-Salem, N.C., Bush said: “I don’t think our troops ought to be used for what’s called nation-building. . . . I think what we need to do is convince people who live in the lands they live in to build the nations. Maybe I’m missing something here. I mean, we’re going to have a kind of nation-building corps from America? Absolutely not.”
So? What’s that have to do with Ron Paul’s foreign policy bent? Absolutely nothing. Did George Bush say the Korean War was wrong. that Granada was wrong? That we are responsible for terrorism? That we need to go back to the isolationism of the 1800s?