[Persevero]

His attitude towards our military makes me sick. I don’t need to watch the video.

[vaudine]

Ron Paul has some good points, especially fiscally. On foreign policy, he is way off base in presenting the mess in the world as America's fault and in saying we must be friendly and make nice with Iran. In the debates, his rant came off whiney and just a little cracked.

Yes, the US military is over-extended. No, we should not be into nation building. Our civilian and military leaders have committed our military to too many places and then tied their hands with unrealistic rules of engagement.

As for Paul ranting this video claiming our presence is like the Chinese or Russians being over here and imposing martial law, that is ridiculous. In Iraq and Afghanistan, for instance, the different tribes and the dictators killed more than we ever did. Iraq needed to have something done, and in spite of all the hand wringing over no WMS there actually were some both in Iraq and Syria. They just were not nuclear. Germ warfare will annihilate a populace as quickly as a nuke.

As for Afghanistan, and Obama's (and others) claims THAT was where we needed to be, I could never see it. This is a mountainous nation of tribes who join together in different configurations for different reasons, and NEVER see things cohesively. Iraq, too is divided into three tribes or peoples, and as we are leaving, they are back at it again. So will Afghanistan be.

But back to Ron Paul--his supporters are kind of like the peaceniks of the 60's--no more money and blood expended. That doesn't mean we can just sit down on our hands and make nice, like Obama asking--asking! the Iraquis to return our drone. He should have been proactive and had it destroyed, but this admin would have probably sold the technology, anyway.

vaudine

[llandres]

I couldn’t watch it through to the end, but you really should watch at least some of it - you’ll be motivated to spread the word about this piece of trash (and his video as well).