Ron Paul

[bhunter]

Originally Posted by neophyte

It both surprised and delighted me to hear the truth being spoken at that gathering about our "foreign policy", gunboat diplomacy being a far more accurate descriptive term for it.I can now take one of this group seriously. I am certain he hasn't the chance of a fart in a whirlwind of being elected POTUS, flaky or not. He spoke up against the wars of adventure that continue to plague this country, and will continue to until the fanatic militarism that infected our government 70+ years ago loses its grip on our country and minds. Any wisp of hope he may have had vanished when he said what he did. He sure gained my respect.

Seventy years ago? You really would support the isolationism encompassed in the War Neutrality Act of the late 1930s. That would also be counter to all Presidents since FDR. Isolationism may have been appropriate before technology made the world a much smaller place; however, today with the economic interconnectedness, it is foolhardy to assume that events elsewhere have no repercussion here. Those very international ties are largely responsible for the increased standard of living both here and abroad that has occurred over the last century. One thing is clearly certain, Europe and Asia would be decidedly different if we maintained an isolationist policy over those seventy years.