Title: Right Wing Neocon, until I Googled Ron Paul! Source:
YouTube URL Source:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gml6g1GMLcE Published:Feb 12, 2012 Author:paladium71 Post Date:2012-02-29 06:33:35 by GreyLmist Keywords:Ron Paul Views:127 Comments:4
During the 2008 presidential campaign, I bought into the conventional wisdom on Ron Paul. He was pretty good on domestic policy, but a “nut-job” when it comes to foreign policy. But as I’ve really listened to what he says, as opposed to the media spin, and studied the world I live in today, I find he makes much more sense. Do I agree with him 100 percent? No. But I can no longer simply discount his foreign policy as quackery. I hear this mantra all the time today. “I like that Ron Paul feller, except for his foreign policy.” I’m not even sure many who say that really understand his foreign policy positions. In fact, they line up pretty closely with stated positions of another president revered by most Americans – George Washington.
I wonder if Washington could get any traction in American politics today with this kind of foreign policy thinking? The following comes from his Farewell Address, delivered on Sept. 17, 1796. [Cont. at site]