As a person who loves Israel (and has many family members there), Ron Paul's position to abandon Israel to the Arabs "because it is a mess over there" is particularly disheartening and wrong-headed.
If you are an American, then your concern should be solely for American interests. In that regard, Israel has no oil and is a net consumer of US tax dollars. The Arabs, by contrast, have all the oil and will obligingly mop up billions of our inflation-soaked dollars in exchange.
US interests in the region are predicated on an alliance with the Arabs, 95% of whom are not terrorists, and who will gladly help us root out the 5% that are. The Assad family in Syria, for example, has killed thousands of members of the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood organization.
Maybe you should move to Israel and join the military...meanwhile, my family and I are Americans and, while I would happily support my son in defending America (hell...I would join him), I will not ever let him be sent off to defend Israel...or any other foreign country
Every nation has one obligation...to defend itself and its people