[Cincinatus' Wife]

I wonder where this author's campaign money goes.

[normy]

Bush's wars were justified in my book. Iraq was part of an over all military strategy. Obama's kinetic military action in Libya would have been greeted with more bipartisanship if he would have consulted congress (which is another rant).

Perry will do what needs to be done unlike Ron Paul who blames Israel and the USA for the Muzzies holding 30 year old grudges (concerning us) and 4000 year old grudges (concerning Israel)

By the way I saw Perry is cleaning up in South Carolina.

[nuconvert]

Lol. I guess I’m a hyper-hawk. Who knew?

[richardtavor]

To paraphrase the Bible, where a candidate’s advisers are, there will his policy be.

Do you know what orifice the author pulled this quote from? It is not in the Bible as far as I know. If quoting from the Bible, he should give the reference, otherwise, he is just making it up.

[Dr. Thorne]

The savaging of Republican candidates by the so-called conservative media is galling. I don't need Doug Bandow or anyone else telling me how to vote.

Like Joe Friday said, "The facts, m'am. Just the facts." If I'm given the facts, I'll make my decision accordingly.

Unfortunately, in the meantime, these idiots are DOING THE DEMOCRATS WORK FOR THEM! They are actively attempting to destroy legitimate GOP candidates before their campaigns are even rolling.

I'm not necessarily a Perry supporter, but I'm willing to listen to him because, unlike geniuses like Doug Bandow, I'm a reasonable guy.

Bandow - I don't need your idiotic opinion in order to form my own. Stop attacking candidates who would certainly be an improvement over Obama and give me a reason to vote for the candidate you support.

Stop the negative campaigning against your own side!

[Daveinyork]

Is Perry Jewish? I thought neo-con was a euphemism for joooo.

[econjack]

This kind of clap-trap is what I call “looking-under-rocks” journalism. First, The US foreign policy, which this idiot seems to think is the make-or-break issue for the 2012 elections. This misjudgment dismisses him in my mind as a serious student of politics. A lot of voters could give a rat's a$$ about foreign policy. Second, it appears that the Dems are so afraid of Perry that they are sending out the MSM hatchet men to derail the train before it gets traction. Third, I don't think this guy has a clue what are going to be the main issues in the next election.

[barstoolblues]

THE RETURN OF THE NEO-CON!!! Aaaahhhhh!!!!
Noooo!

[demshateGod]

The author is really stupid. One could attack Perry for being a neocon without advocating North Korea’s invasion of the South.

[texmexis best]

This author is one of the least knowledgeable that I have read in the last ten years. It is hard to know where to begin.

Let’s just say that the whole opiniion piece is claptrap and shows a lack of knowledge of history as well as foreign policy.

[mnehring]

Doug Bandow is an extreme Libertarian who has written similar articles on all our major candidates (except Ron Paul, surprise surprise). He has had some very nasty words for Palin and Bachmann.

To give you an idea how extreme he is, he has written at least four articles calling for the lifting of sanctions against North Korea and thinks Taiwan should fall back under China’s rule.

He is the perfect definition of a neo-hippie or as Ayn Rand called Libertarians, the hippies of the right who trade rationalism for whims.

[mnehring]

Per previous, here is a perfect example of how over the edge Bandow is:

Kim's Atom Project

Washington should consider accepting North Korea as a limited nuclear state.

[Huck]

I take it as a given that only neocons can win the GOP nomination. Who was the last GOP president who wasn’t? Coolidge??

[hocndoc]

Blame America first!
Perry promotes leading from stregnth, this guy just promotes every other Nation in the world.

[Jabba the Nutt]

Doug Bandow is a Christian libertarian, works(ed?) out of the CATO Institute and is a non-interventionist. I'm libertarian, but I disagree with orthodox libertarian foreign policy. It smacks of 'blame America firstism' and has a 'narcissistic streak'.

Let me illustrate using Bandow's article: "In such a world the U.S. need not confront every threat, and especially need not do so militarily. Russia is determined to regain lost influence along its borders, not challenge the U.S. for global preeminence. China is building a military to deter the U.S. from attacking it, not to attack America."

Russia is determined to regain lost influence along its borders. Bandow ignores that as that influence is regained, there are new borders to gain or re-gain influence. The Roman Empire expanded due to threats on its borders. As the borders expanded, new threats appeared at the new borders.

Here's an example of the narcissism, which implies that America is the cause of everything and no one else has their own aims and actions. It's always in response to America. "North Korea is a problem for America primarily because the U.S. continues to defend its populous and prosperous ally to the south. Pull out America’s troops and Pyongyang’s ability to threaten America largely vanishes."

Ah, North Korea has sent missiles over Japan too and has built missiles that reach Alaska and the west coast.

"A nuclear Iran would face destruction by both Israel and the U.S. if it attempted to use any weapons that it created, and its leadership has demonstrated no taste for collective suicide."Ah, one nuclear missile wipes out half of Israel. Two or more missiles could wipe Israel off the map. And Iran's leadership compose Twelvers, who do believe that the Mahdi will return,when there is mass slaughter in the world. Ahmadinejad wants to bring this about.

Why I'm not libertarian on foreign policy.