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He's irrelevant. Even Lindsey Graham is beating him now in some polls, I just noticed. He is like his dad. Knows he can't win but is trying to give his ideology a voice. In a post-9/11 world, non-interventionalism doesn't work. It sounds nice, but it's unrealistic.
Really? You should watch this, then tell me intervention is a great idea.
_ Dared to mention the "State of Emergency" in place since 1933;
_ Admitted that "dollar bills" are not dollars, nor are they redeemable;
_ Pointed out that FICA (socialism) is 100% voluntary, and no law compels participation;
_ Explained that due to clause 4, 14th amendment, USCON, no one can question the validity of the public debt, even if it IS fraudulent;
_ Understood the meaning and source of the "republican form of government" as guaranteed in Art. 4, Sec. 4, USCON.
Rand is right and probably the smartest Republican running...but you can just see in the debates that his thought process for some of the other Repub candidates is 'how can you be this dumb?' Which of course turns off a lot of people.
Having some troops there at the request of their governments isn't occupying. Wanna know what occupying is? Look up how China occupies Tibet, or Turkey occupies northern Cyprus.
Like Iraq? Or the embargo that killed over a million children in Iraq?
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I'm not saying that everything our government does is right and sensible, but there's no justification for 9/11, and doing nothing at all also has consequences. Simply thinking that pulling our troops out of the Islamic World will stop terrorism against us is ridiculously naive.
They never messed with America until we went into the Middle East.Naive is thinking differently
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The religion of these savages tells them to slaughter infidels anywhere they are.
No it doesn't. That just your bigoted views
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Our troops being in other lands is just a convenient excuse they give so that liberals and libertarians believe them and feel bad for them.
So if China puts troops on our soil you'd feel the same?
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