Well, it is cynical as our foreign policy often is. But you can't give democracy to people. Especially if your own country doesn't have much confidence in it to begin with.
You might like this list, remarkably accurate for a domestic publication:
Posted on 06/07/2007 7:08:11 PM PDT by Remember_Salamis
GOP Ron Paul - Five Million Dollar Man? Thursday, June 07, 2007 - FreeMarketNews.com
Congressman Ron Paul’s donations have moved up - not by hundreds of thousands - but by millions as a result of his debate performances and groundswell of support on the Internet and in New Hampshire, observers close to the campaign say.
The move is especially impressive since as of March 31, 2007, he had perhaps $500,000 on hand (see candidate estimates below).
FMNN had previously reported – after the GOP presidential debate in South Carolina - that candidate Ron Paul’s (R-Tex) donations, large and small, had nearly doubled.
http://www.freemarketnews.com/WorldNews.asp?nid=42336
Now observers close to the campaign are revealing – with some astonishment – that donations to the campaign in recent weeks have pushed the total up to perhaps $4 or $5 million.
“That’s a huge number at this stage,” says one observer. “That starts to put him in a position where he can compete – state by state, anyway – with the major candidates.”
And this source added, “Of course, it’s hard to tell because the numbers keep changing – and thus nobody at the campaign has a firm count, at least not hour to hour. But the numbers are big. It’s definitely over three, probably over four, and if it hasn’t hit five yet, it will soon.”
At this rate, say observers, Ron Paul could have something like $10 million in his coffers inside of several months, and the total could keep growing – so long as he continues to hit on themes that Americans support – how to return the country to a true, small government, constitutional republic and how to end the war in Iraq.
To be sure such amounts are somewhat speculative. But to put the amount of money Ron Paul is said to have raised recently in perspective, here are the figures of cash on hand for GOP candidates as of March 31, 2007:
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/money/gop.html
Sam Brownback cash-on-hand: $806,626
Jim Gilmore cash-on-hand: $90,107
Rudy Giuliani cash-on-hand: $11,949,735
Mike Huckabee cash-on-hand: $373,918
Duncan Hunter cash-on-hand: $272,552
John McCain cash-on-hand: $5,180,799
Ron Paul cash-on-hand: $524,919
Mitt Romney cash-on-hand: $11,863,653
Tom Tancredo cash-on-hand: $575,078
Tommy Thompson cash-on-hand: $139,723
Source: CNN
Staff Reports - Free-Market News Network
“Islamos worse than Hitler.” — Now that’s Hyperbole!
Great news..........
Dr Paul is the ONLY candidate I will support in this election cycle.
The issue is several things I think. Let's be frank. Fox is playing to a base. A base of hoo-rah ADD simpletons but base still the same. The same sort that will sit and listen to Rush or Hannity ramble on for three hours and then repeat verbatim what they said as if that's THE only argument. Conservatism is defined by what the administration says is conservative and if you don't like it then you must be a 'moonbat', 'anti-American', and 'unpatriotic'.
The other reason is Fox quells rational speech during their main shows. They bring on people just to give O'Reilly, Hannity, Cavuto, and the like a jumping off point to start talking again. I can't stand to watch Hannity. He's not conservative and I'm beginning to doubt the man has read the Constitution (or if he has he refutes what it says because it gets in the way of Republican mantras). But O'Reilly is just the same. He talks over his guests if they dare to disagree with him and he rarely gives them opportunity to answer
But it's evident of the Republican party. Look back to the debates. How many of the other candidates even mention the Constitution? Last debate the St. Rudy mentioned it once (and that was to condone his view on abortion) and Ron Paul mentioned it in almost every question he was asked (in another question he discussed Christian Just War theory).
This view is foreign to Fox, and sadly to too many citizens of the respective states. One reason I believe we are seeing an upswing in his popularity (and funding) is Paul is saying something different. He's not playing the monkey see, monkey do, stand in front of the camera, look pretty, and ramble on about nothing game. He's stating substance. And saying things a lot of people feel but no one believed there was a politician that felt that way anymore.
And the establishment media, as well as the Republican Party, are doing their absolute best to quell it
I agree with everything you’ve said except for Cavuto.
Fox News is now the Rudy Giuliani Campaign Network.
Cute that this PR piece compares fuzzy numbers on what Paul has raised with cash on hand numbers of other candidates at the end of March.
Cute that this PR piece compares fuzzy numbers on what Paul has raised with cash on hand numbers of other candidates at the end of March.
Aren’t all the candidate’s numbers “fuzzy” until the next required reporting date?
Democracy is nothing more than an advanced auction on stolen goods; liberty and protection of Natural Rights is what matters.
What very few people realize is how nationalist and xenophobic the Iraqi People are, even towards other Arabs. Illegal Immigrants are thrown in jail for years, while insurgents get out in a couple of days.
We’re the most foreign, so they truly despise us. But when we’re gone, the Sunni tribes will wipe out the foreign jihadists presence within their midst.
The only real problem I see for Iraq after we leave is the Shia radicals. The Sunni tribes will take care of their own and the Kurds are doing fine.
Perhaps we should follow a policy that accentuates the internal divisions between Arab Shia and Persian/South Asian Shia, because there are many.
Aren’t we only about a week away from the next mandatory FEC filings where they have to ‘fess up their actual numbers?
***coffee spew***
Compare that to the fact that if any of these Islamic groups gets near a bomb, not too hard and getting easier, they can do more harm to us than Hitler did. Mind you I speak as an American in America, that is the country I am concerned with. Hitler’s twisted dreams gutted Europe and killed millions.
However given a shot, these Islamic groups would surely want to exterminate more groups than the Fuhrer wanted to. They not not only want the Jews, but the Christians and everybody else in their way.
We could see Hitler coming, and fight away from our people and our land. A Jihadist nuke goes off in an American city and we would not know it until the cloud rose up. If Hitler was around today with today’s weapons, anyone in their right mind would favor intervention, a preemptive strike once they came to know his true intentions. In away knowing what we know about the Jihadist puts us ahead of the game. Chancellor Hitler was a good guy at the time he was building up. Ask Chamberlain. Again, imagine if Hitler had todays weapons. He would be shaking hands as the bombs were launched.
If hyperbole means stressing the facts in your world, I’m guilty. Coming home and hiding is not a choice. It is a dangerious world with the instant death of millions possible from small boxes and crazy men. In that world, my world, I choose action, not reaction.
Aren’t we only about a week away from the next mandatory FEC filings where they have to ‘fess up their actual numbers?
Yeah, I’m not sure. I think it’s a quarterly reporting requirement.
We’ll find out soon enough
“They would have to make their own peace with each other and drive out their own terrorists. But another Saddam would arise.”
If we left in 2003 after we captured Saddam. We could have retaken the country 7 times to dispose a leader we didn’t like with the amount of money and lives we’ve spent since in nation building and occupation.
Of course, no one in America will even notice because the iPhone craze will start on 6/29. I expect riots.
I think I’ll take that week off and head for the hills for a while.
Imagine if they had WMDs....
You have to see that changes the equation radically. We in the modern era can’t use the “defensive position” strategy. Their first strike can do much more harm now.
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