This doesn't sound like a man who is "weak" to me Doug, but rather someone who sees a very different paradigm for the situation in Iran and for our actions. If Ron Paul were "weak" he would have been converted the corruption and the pack mentality that is Washington a very long time ago -- but after 30 years there, he wasn't.
We have never fought an enemy like this who does not care if their children die as long as they kill Jews in the process. I don’t believe Ron Paul understands the threat we face as Islam is outbirthing the nations of Europe. It is truly frightening. I believe them when they say they want us to convert or die.
I've been to the ME twice. My ancestors spent 500 years fighting Islam -- and along with Jewish names, Serbian last names like mine were the only other names that were identified by the US military as not ones an American soldier would want to have to wear on his chest while fighting in Iraq or Afghanistan. That should tell you something.
I also have several friends who are paid experts on Islam -- one of them is the foreign policy editor over at Chronicles who also wrote the books, Sword of the Prophet and Defeating Jihad. The general agreement on Islam among those experts is that we need to demystify Islam -- otherwise it produces irrational fears that get exploited. And that we need to treat Islam the same way that we treated communism ,since Islamic Sharia is also a political system. The things that we don't want to do is mutter falsehoods like "Islam means peace", or give Islam credence and credibility with positions of power -- yet that's precisely what we have done since 9/11 -- it's absolutely insane.
Communism was also a political system that "killed children" and anyone in its way. Communism too was a dangerous threat to our security and there were homegrown communists here. Want communist stories to raise the hair on you head? Think of the millions of Ukrainians that Stalin murdered. In terms of fighting communism, we were experts at it and the comparison in terms of defeating it are parallel to Islam in virtually every way, as they are both erroneous belief systems.
Surely you know that Ron Paul has no chance of being nominated. The only thing he can do is run as a third party candidate and, in the process, help Barack Hussein Obama spend another four years destroying this nation.
I know no such thing which is why I and many others have contributed significantly to his campaign -- he's at $2.5M in less than two days from ordinary people, not from major corporations or banks. I keep wondering why this "Ron Paul can't win" gets continually repeated as some sort of mantra, unless it's supposed to mean "Ron Paul must not win" and it's being produced by the banksters and corporatists who just don't want the scam that is being run on the American people to be over.
No worries over Ron Paul running third Party -- it's not going to happen.
And as for why Ron Paul? What are the other choices? Romney the corporate shill? Cain the bankster shill? Perry, the open-borders "you don't have a heart if you don't support free tuition for illegals"? Give me one other believable candidate who believes in the Constitution and Liberty, who has the economic and foreign policy foresight that Ron Paul has, and who isn't owned by anyone other than the American people, and I'm all in. Supporting a 76 yr old who isn't a soundbite king, isn't easy and wouldn't be my first choice if I thought that there was a better alternative -- but he's the best and only one we've got this election and I really believe that we are at such a crossroads that if we don't make that turn back toward Liberty & the Constitution now, we are not going to have another chance. This is what is called "the kairos" in Greek -- the moment of opportunity -- and I don't think that the USA, as we know it, is going to get another one.
I appreciate your point of view and extended answers. Unfortunately, I work 7 days a week to survive the Obamaconomy and just don’t have any more time to devote to this.