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Libertarians are half-right. Their limited-govermment, low-taxation positions are spot on.
However, their position re: the US's standing in the world is idiotic. We aren't the Bahamas, or some other minor-league player. We are the leader of the free world, and we MUST maintain that role, or their will no longer be a "free world" for anyone to be the leader of. The idea of "no entagling alliances" might have had a place in the early years (remember that only with the assistance of allies could we have fough off the Brits), but no longer.
Yes! We must force the rest of the world, using military force if necessary, to remain a free society!
Well, I WOULD say, he's probably outnumbered by about a million to one.
Correct, hard to win against them odds. What Paul has done is introduced the idea of a return to a constitutional republic to those who otherwise may never have come upon the concept. It has taken four or five generations to bring us this far down the road to serfdom. It will take time to restore the idea of a limited constitutional government. It may never happen, but we can't give up without a fight.
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Yes! We must force the rest of the world, using military force if necessary, to remain a free society!
Nah, LaTrang is right, barring a global level democracy, the reality is that there still has to be a "Big Daddy" to be at least some sort of "arbiter" (or "big stick", as the case may be). Just look at the chaos in Mexico, where basically the removal of one longterm dominant crime family was replaced by several different ones now constantly competing to be the new Top Dog. Global politics ain't much different (or haven't we been noticing China lately)?!
But that still leaves a lot of room for what sort of Big Daddy it's gonna be, whether it's the swaggering 'cowboy' of Dubya, or Obama's brand of "can't we all just get along"!
Nah, LaTrang is right, barring a global level democracy, the reality is that there still has to be a "Big Daddy" to be at least some sort of "arbiter" (or "big stick", as the case may be). Just look at the chaos in Mexico, where basically the removal of one longterm dominant crime family was replaced by several different ones now constantly competing to be the new Top Dog. Global politics ain't much different (or haven't we been noticing China lately)?!
But that still leaves a lot of room for what sort of Big Daddy it's gonna be, whether it's the swaggering 'cowboy' of Dubya, or Obama's brand of "can't we all just get along"!
It's better having the Government fighting over there than over here, man.
It's better having the Government fighting over there than over here, man.
It would be better if we stopped screwing with crazy people and abandoned Wilsonianism for a rational foreign policy where we focus on our own interests.
I don't think there is a State in the Union that would elect Ron Paul as a Democrat.
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