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quote:Originally posted by Charles Johnson
quote:Originally posted by Night Stalker
quote:Originally posted by SCOUT5
quote:Originally posted by skicat
Night Stalker....I get a different take on Paul's foreign policy than you it seems. From the speeches I have heard and the positions he has taken in the past, I am comfortable that he is the most in tune with the realities of our past foreign policy and has clearly identified many of its shortcomings.
Never have I heard Paul say we have to stop paying attention to and render ourselves unaware of what transpires globally. He promotes non-intervention which, after seeing the lack of success we have experienced employing a policy of invasive intervention, really has a lot of appeal.
Applying the Golden Rule does not mean we are forced to naively hope that everyone "plays nice" and weakly accept affronts to our well being without defense. It simply means that we do not originate atrocities, launch preemptive invasions, violate the airspace of other sovereign nations, or in any other way attempt to circumvent the rule of law which we have already agreed to live under.
The plain fact of the matter is that we are spread too thin and cannot afford to continue propping up the military industrial complex any longer. By continuing our past policies we only insure the loss of allies and building a solid case for the rest of the planet that the US is out of control.
It is also irrational to expect to exert any significant control over territories on the opposite side of the planet when our own borders are sieves.
To the matter of the original question posed as to how Paul would handle Canada, There are ways to put pressure on Canada to correct the problem within the Rule of Law so as to motivate them to police themselves better and until such time as it takes to regain our trust we eliminate their access to classified material. How else could you handle it?
Thanks for posting this, it saved me a lot of typing.
and?
Your original thought is?
NS
Original thought? Like "Ron Paul is an isolationist"? You can get that line of "reasoning" on every Rushbo/ Hanniturd/ O'Snarley broadcast.
Ouch....accurate, but ouch.[:)]
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quote:Originally posted by Night Stalker
quote:Originally posted by SCOUT5
quote:Originally posted by skicat
Night Stalker....I get a different take on Paul's foreign policy than you it seems. From the speeches I have heard and the positions he has taken in the past, I am comfortable that he is the most in tune with the realities of our past foreign policy and has clearly identified many of its shortcomings.
Never have I heard Paul say we have to stop paying attention to and render ourselves unaware of what transpires globally. He promotes non-intervention which, after seeing the lack of success we have experienced employing a policy of invasive intervention, really has a lot of appeal.
Applying the Golden Rule does not mean we are forced to naively hope that everyone "plays nice" and weakly accept affronts to our well being without defense. It simply means that we do not originate atrocities, launch preemptive invasions, violate the airspace of other sovereign nations, or in any other way attempt to circumvent the rule of law which we have already agreed to live under.
The plain fact of the matter is that we are spread too thin and cannot afford to continue propping up the military industrial complex any longer. By continuing our past policies we only insure the loss of allies and building a solid case for the rest of the planet that the US is out of control.
It is also irrational to expect to exert any significant control over territories on the opposite side of the planet when our own borders are sieves.
To the matter of the original question posed as to how Paul would handle Canada, There are ways to put pressure on Canada to correct the problem within the Rule of Law so as to motivate them to police themselves better and until such time as it takes to regain our trust we eliminate their access to classified material. How else could you handle it?
Thanks for posting this, it saved me a lot of typing.
and?
Your original thought is?
NS
Original thought? Like "Ron Paul is an isolationist"? You can get that line of "reasoning" on every Rushbo/ Hanniturd/ O'Snarley broadcast.
Ouch....accurate, but ouch.[:)]