“Really? islam has been trying to kill Jews and Christians for more than a 1000 years.”
no doubt. But consider that we did a lot to help grow the radical and violent strain if Islam (of course it has always existed), we supported the Muslim Brotherhood and the Taliban as counterweights against the Soviets and we still have politicians and pundits with their nose deeply stuck up the Saudi bunghole.
My point isn’t that we do or don’t have a problem with radical Islam (see my tagline for my personal opinion), it’s that Ron Paul and other “isolationists” are at least partly right, our foreign policy, like anything else the government does, is best when it is least. Trying to ensure that other sovereign states have governments friendly to us is as likely to backfire in the long run as it is to do any good in the near term.
just my .02, but I want Washington engaging in no more intervention regafding in who rules what, where and how outside our borders than I want it manipulating our economy inside our borders.
Ok, so even though islam has been trying to kill Jews and Christians for over 1000 years, you think we have (in the last 25 years) exasperated the situation? Weird.