The media says that Ron Paul's foreign policy is "crazy". But he's the only candidate promoting peace.
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Posted 1/6/2012 4:46 pm
Meanwhile, the Nobel Peace Prize winner has bombed 3 or 4 different countries, and Rick Santorum has promised to go to war with Iran to stop them from getting nukes.
Well, that's how propaganda works. Instead of calling it "Not going around the world fucking with people", you call it "isolationism" and make it seem like a bad thing.
Posted 1/6/2012 5:31 pm
Isolationism doesn't get you peace. First, it allows a lot of other regional conflicts to srart up without the threat of US involvement. Second, it leaves us alone when someone decides to get uppity and attacks us anyway.
That's not to say that there isn't a lot of our foreign policy that needs to be reevaluated, but that mostly has more to do with us still fighting old wars than anything else.
And they're pretty much limited to places where we don't have any interests. If we become isolationists, there'd be dozens of other ones that would pop up overnight.
Posted 1/6/2012 6:18 pm
Unfortunately that's not the way the world works. By abandoning all American military interests outside of North America, you're actually ENCOURAGING war. America's enemies will rush in to fill the void left by it's presence. It gives them power and influence which will in turn be used against America. You can't simply run home and hope to be ignored.. all you're doing is giving up power which will eventually be used against you anyway. It's childish and naive.
We shall see. This should get interesting \
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