Fantastic Ron Paul Interviews
POSTED BY: SergeantX
UPDATED: Wednesday, December 26, 2007 14:16
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It all boils down to Americans really having no way to integrate what happened on 9/11. No concept of grieving our terrible loss and moving on. The only psychologically acceptable resolution for these folks is the fantasy that such catastrophes can be prevented in some fool-proof absolute way. So many Americans having grown up with the fairy tale of America the Invincible, want to somehow return to that childish appraisal of our country's place in the world. And so, in order to prevent even the possibility of another terrorist attack on our soil we must prevent every and all threats, even potential potential threats, before they even exist! It's like cutting off a limb because you think it might be cancerous some day.
And this crap analogy with WWII is nonsense. When Saddam tried to annex a nearby country à la Hilter back in '81, what did the entire world do? Kicked his ass back to Baghdad! Now, we go in there unilaterally, on the thinnest pretext, depose Saddam and take over. What the hell does that have to do with WWII? It's utter crap UNLESS you buy into this deplorable fantasy that America must regain it's absolute sovereignty in the world (as outlined by PNAC). Amerika über alles.
Ron Paul is not a peacenik, he's simply a sanitynik, a due processnik and a constitutionnik. That some Americans believe we must forsake our constitution in order to survive, that adherense to the laws of this land weakens us, shows their utter lack of faith or belief in what makes this country great.
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In Firefly terms, Ron Paul is a Browncoat! The other candidates supported Unification. Paul is running on a platform of independence for the colonies, an end to military Alliance rule, abolition of Blue Sun, and to put 'Two-by-two hands of Blue' in jail.
How can Firefly fans -not- vote for Paul?
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Quote:My apologies. My comments were not meant at all to impugn the courage of Europeans.
Originally posted by SimonWho:
There are plenty of nations that could question the motives and courage of Britain and France; the Czechs in particular can call us cowards. But that is a very bad war to pick as an example of American resolve.
I only meant to say that Americans are not more cowardly or self-interested than Europeans. Europeans are not more so than Americans either.
I also used the term, "delay entering the war" because it was the term Jongstraw used (" isolationists delayed the entry" into the war.) I believe this delay saved a lot of Americans lives.
Just my opinion.
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The video doesn't change my mind about Ron Paul in the least. He's a believer, ok. About what, I have no idea.
J/K, though he's not a leader. He's a man w/ lots of opinions and most of them he's too idealistic to be working in the real world, but he doesn't inspire me in the least. He might make a good policy advisor, but not much more. Good guy, don't get me wrong, there's a lot I like in what he says, it's just too flung to be taken seriously.
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