RickD wrote:Here's a video from a few years back, where Ron Paul talks about the difference between an isolationist, and a non interventionist.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kf6CjcJ ... ata_player
FL, all you have to do, is google "is Ron Paul an isolationist", and you'll see he's not. Any other misrepresentations you want to bandy about?
I'm impressed! This is really important to you! I'll have a look at the video after I answer your previous post, then I'll get back to you with my impressions.
RickD wrote:I don't think [Ron Paul is] anti-Israel, either. He's anti foreign funding, towards all countries. Spend our money to fix our country, not give our taxes to rich people in other countries. What evidence do you have to support your assertion that he's an isolationist, FL?
1. Didn't you see the videos Gman posted where Ron Paul says that Israel created its problems (Hamas, Hizbollah etc?). In any event,
blessing Israel is always a better idea, it says so in your Bible.
2. I think your country is broke. Broke as in
broken, and broke as in
no money, and the pit is very deep indeed. I
do agree that giving money to the UN (33% of that body's funding comes from the USA, a country vilified at the UN) and to Egypt (a soon-to-be new enemy of Israel) and the Palestinian Authority (which uses it to fund terrorism and build trust funds for officials), and so on and on, is bad investing. The money saved on these bad investments could be used re-build America, and to feed Americans, one-in-six of whom is living below the poverty line. Cutting off Israel, however, would be a very bad investment.
3. Ron Paul as an isolationist: as I looked into this, I realized that there is little evidence on the internet that Paul is an isolationist, at least nothing that is spelled out so clearly. Then I noticed that I was looking at articles originating in the USA. These tend to portray him as a free-market type who would do away with all tariffs. I get most of my news in French, from TV5, a worldwide French-language CNN-type of news, and from Al-Jazeera/English, and from French-language newsmagazines and newspapers. These portray Paul as isolationist because of his foreign policy.
RickD wrote:I've been locked in a cabin in the woods for the last 20 years. No electricity, no nothin, but livin off the fat of the land. I didn't even know what a telephone was, up until a few years ago. Yup, jus me an my banjo
A cabin in the woods? like Henry David Thoreau?! How come he bacame a wacko-pinko-commie-tree-hugger after his experience and you became a vile-libertarian-ugly-capitalist who doesn't vote?
FL
Hold everything lightly. If you don't, it will hurt when God pries your fingers loose as He takes it from you. -Corrie Ten Boom
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If they had a social gospel in the days of the prodigal son, somebody would have given him a bed and a sandwich and he never would have gone home.
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