Saturday, December 15, 2007

Does Ron Paul Have A Point?



. "The [Republican] party has lost it's way because the conservative wing of the Republican party always advocated a noninterventionist foreign policy. No Nation Building, No Policing of the world. Republicans were elected to end the Korean War, Republicans were elected to end the Vietnam War [Nixon]. There's a strong tradition of being anti war in the Republican party, it's the Constitutional position, it is the advice of the founders to follow a noninterventionist foreign policy, stay out of entangling alliances, be friends with countries, negotiate and talk with them and trade with them."

"... our foreign policy has what the CIA calls Blowback, it has unintended consequences. You can go back to 1953 when we put the Shah into power, supporting Osama bin Laden and radicalizing the Islamics to go after the Soviets, and that comes back as blowback….”
“… Peace is a powerful message. Especially after the war has been going on and people wake up and realize how many people die and how much it costs. Logic tells us that you can make a better world in a much easier way than war.”

Ron Paul

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