Ron Paul also is lousy on foreign policy. Some things he is fine on but he will get us slaughtered with his nonapproach. Isolationism is a long dead effort. Transportation and other technolgies make it a dangerous world to put one’s head in the sand
Where on earth did you come up with THAT quaint notion, that Ron Paul is an isolationist? What he IS is a NON-INTERVENTIONIST. Which is a horse of a whole ‘nother color. We elect a President to be the Chief Executive of and FOR the United States, not president of the world. Major difference there. Our President has NO legitimate authority to send troops anywhere except in response to direct attacks on THE UNITED STATES. None whatsoever. However, in responding to direct attacks, the President should (and RP would) use whatever massive strength were needed to permanently eliminate the threat and the attackers. He would have played to WIN and then come home, not maintain a presence somewhere for decades to come.
As another believer in the Just War theory, I can only commend Dr. Paul for his CONSTITUTIONAL stance. As one who has seen what we’ve been doing firsthand, I must commend him for wanting to bring our troops HOME to defend OUR borders, something no OTHER President (or former candidate) seems to have any interest in doing.
And CURRENTLY, with the Usurper-in-Chief we have now, I do have to question HIS motives for keeping our troops OUT OF THE COUNTRY at a time when they might be needed to put down an executive branch run amok.
So anyway you slice it, you are wrong, and wrong in this case can mean DEAD wrong.
Yepper, it's lousy to be against intervening in the affairs of foreign nations.
It's lousy to be against sending billions of taxpayer dollars abroad to nations that hate us, and often winds up in the hands of terrorists.
It's lousy to believe that we can trade with other nations without actually intervening into their internal affairs.
It's lousy to believe America should come first. (Now that one is really lousy.)
And finally, the most lousy of all lousies, is to NOT know that non-intervention into the affairs of foreign nations means exactly the same thing as isolationism. Anyone can look it up in the dictionary to readily see the definitions are IDENTICAL. /sarc
Ok, what else is lousy?
You haven’t figured out that the same tax and spend, big government, world government, interventionist, liberals run the state department? So, while you reject their views on the size, role and funding of government, you embrace, blindly, gullibly, their management of our foreign policy? Are you that naive to believe that under Republican presidents our state department if full of CONSERVATIVES?
I suppose you would have slurred “Mr. Republican” Senator Taft as “an isolationist,” too.