IMAO Time Machine: I Fear Ron Paul for the Same Reason Terrorists Don’t

Harvey posted this in 2007. — The Editors

I had a lot of fun at Ron Paul’s expense in this post, so I thought I should clarify my political position a bit.
For the record, I voted straight Libertarian Party in 2000, and I’ve read everything Ayn Rand’s ever written, both fiction and non-.
As a congressman, I admire Ron Paul’s consistent voting record against unconstitutional items (about 3/4 of the Federal budget, these days – unless you believe that the “general welfare” & “commerce” clauses grant Congress nigh-unlimited authority to meddle in people’s affairs). I wish we had more like him.
My disagreement with him (and the Libertarian Party, too, which is why I turned in my card) is that he thinks that national defense stops at the border, that Americans aren’t worthy of protection when they travel or do business abroad, and that third-world hell-holes and dictatorial slave states are entitled to have their “national sovereignty” respected.
Any free or semi-free nation has the right (although not the duty) to invade any dictatorial slave state for the purpose of liberating it, or to extinguish a threat to the free nation’s existence.
In 2001 we put the world on notice that they would either have to root out the terrorist organizations in their midsts, or we would do it for them.
Ron Paul is against this policy, which is why I’m against Ron Paul.
Conversely, W is only moderately supportive of this policy, which is why I’m only moderately supportive of W.
Hopefully the next president will understand that the War on Terror doesn’t just need to be fought, it needs to be won.

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IMAO Time Machine: I Fear Ron Paul for the Same Reason Terrorists Don’t

IMAO Time Machine: I Fear Ron Paul for the Same Reason Terrorists Don’t

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