Whatever merits in political views, issues Paul has as 2012 Republican candidate are more than negated by his mypoic, head-up-his-*ss delusions of global strategy, politics.
This is simply not true.
Bin Laden/AQ were looking for an excuse to finish off 1993’s WTC bombing.
If AQ really wanted to help their own people, they’d create jobs for them. Real jobs. Not paying them to sit around. Not teaching them to eviscerate Jews and Christians.
But this IS the problem, isn’t it? It’s not about our ‘intervention.’ It’s about our very existence.
The Roman Senate persistently resisted foreign military involvements but was just as persistently drawn into them. Their desire for isolationism was as unrealistic as ours.
American Isolationism is traced back to Washington’s Farewell Address (written by Hamilton) and that is a completely invalid interpretation of what that document was about. It was, first and foremost, a warning against Secession or dissolution of the Union.
The warning Washington gave about involvement in European wars in 1796 was because the Republican French supporters (Jeffersonians) would be at war with the Federalist English supporters here in this country. And it was for a specific time and place. No one who has looked at Hamilton would mistake him as an “isolationist”.
Washington and Hamilton understood that our military power was so weak that we had trouble beating the Indians on the frontiers much less a French or British army. Jeffersonians in the Congress had reduced our naval buildup and emasculated our ability to respond to the seizure of our shipping by either nation and the Barbary pirates.
This guy is the Maxine Waters of the Right.