What exactly are the Western nations to do Mr. Paul? Are they to crawl back into their shell and never come out?
That’s sounds like peace to me too at first, but there’s some thinking to do here.
If the Western nations don’t try to direct world affairs, who will?
Do we want Islam to rule, China to rule, or Russia to rule? When it comes to foreign policy, should the West stay out and let these entities direct world affairs?
This is the seven year old child’s view of foreign affairs. My, if we just stay out of everything outside our nation, all will be peaches and cream.
And then Russia, China, and Islam carve up the rest of the world, making it what...?
Safer?
Obama is stuck on 9 and Ron Paul is stuck on 7.
It comes from an attempt to squeeze everything into a rigid philosophical system. Every once in a while you have to stand back and look at things with unadulterated common sense. You can’t do that if you’re doctrinaire.