What's funny about this is there were many people back in 2008 who were supporting Ron Paul, but their second choice was Obama. It was on a different site I visit sometimes, and it was funny seeing people try to explain things to them about the difference. There were a surprising amount of them also, but you could tell they were just following trends and probably forgot about everything to do with politics the day after the election; if they were still interested by then. That's what you get when you suddenly pick up the votes of people who have never voted before like Obama and Paul did back then. Just imagine how many votes Obama got from people who had no idea whatsoever about anything in politics. It's kind of scary people that stupid/ignorant can decide an election. Actually being informed and still voting for him is worse.
Considering that Mexico is our most destructive enemy, shows how ignorant and careless a lot Republicans are on national security and foreign policy. If Herman Cain addresses the border seriously he will have done more for the defensive, and continued survival, of the United States than Bush,or any other President in years.
I don't agree with Paul's foreign policy, but I do think it's about time for us to stop fighting wars. We don't fight to win anymore like we did in WW2. We have ridiculously long wars, that cost ridiculous amounts of money these days. If a war is really important enough to for us to fight then we need to use the might of our military to get a quick and decisive victory, instead of a war that last 10+ years.
“If a war is really important enough to for us to fight then we need to use the might of our military to get a quick and decisive victory, instead of a war that last 10+ years.”
I don’t agree with much of what you wrote....I don’t see any good in Ron Paul at all.
However, I almost fully agree with the quoted statement above. I don’t want the U.S. to become isolationist or non-interventionist, but I do want us to have a clear purpose for engaging in any armed conflict. If we have good reason, and I will leave that up to elected officials being advised by military professionals, then as you say....we need to go for total war. IF the conflict isn’t worth committing us to totally annihilating the opposing force(s), then it probably isn’t worth fighting. I never have questioned the need or wisdom of being in Iraq or Afghanistan. I have only questioned the ridiculous rules of engagement placed upon our military to keep them from more decisive victory. So many times in Iraq those on convoys were reduced to being simply targets - not soldiers. As, I believe, Rush has said, “The military exists to kill enemies and break things.” General Sherman said during the Civil War that, “War is cruelty, there is no use in trying to reform it...the crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.” Also, we need to drop the facade of saying we are there to “liberate” a country. Because, I believe we should only be there if we intend to conquer it and set up a government friendly to our own. I cannot believe we are leaving Iraq with Sadr,et. al. still alive and causing problems. I cannot believe we are leaving it wide open to Iranian invasion. Not at all a satisfactory outcome in my thinking.