Reagan on Ron Paul's Foreign Policy

[dblack]

Reagan’s views are frankly irrelevant, his administration’s policies were clearly neo-con interventionist, directed by aggressive Cold Warriors, and at complete odds with Paul’s foreign policy position.

Neocon doesn't mean "interventionist" and he was a fiscal conservative. Honestly, you people just like the word to use on people you oppose.

Reagan may have pitched himself as a fiscal conservative, but he didn't walk the walk. He wasn't as 'neo-con' as Bush and friends, but he was in the same vein. In fact, one hallmark of the neocons is their desire to continue the coldwar mentality - seeing foreign affairs as an extension of that fruitless effort.

 

[LibertyForAll]

Out of curiosity, you do know there's more to being a "neocon" then supporting foreign wars, right?

In my opinion the current President is a Big Government Neocon himself. His policies are Neocon policies. I know most call him a Socialist/Progressive,but he's actually a Neocon. Which gets back to what i've always said,There is no real difference between a Socialist/Progressive and Neocon. They both take you to the same place in the end. They both need to get the boot. It's time for real Conservatism. Because that's the only thing that can save this country now.

They're all the same when it comes to foreign policy. There is an end goal written some time ago and each president follows the path to that goal 1 yard at a time. Paul is the only one who won't hence he is unelectable and a threat to the established order. In the off chance he was nominated, they'd kill him.

Unfortunately, you might be close to the truth.

 

[Steelplate]

There's one thing you all are missing... Ronald Reagan would be considered a Communist today.

Reagan--No Loopholes For Millionaires - YouTube

Amazing how the context changes everything.

Obama - advocating increasing taxes on the "rich" to increase progressive taxes

Reagan - advocated lowering tax rates and eliminating deductions to FLATTEN taxes.

But you hear those as the same because they use some of the same words...

Actually...In the beginning, there were no "tax increases" on the rich. It was letting the Bush tax CUTS expire for the rich. Letting temporary tax CUTS expire is not a tax increase. But that's not how the GOP spun it, was it? Now I see the Dems doing the same thing with the FICA thing... Saying that the GOP is "increasing" taxes on the Middle Class by letting them expire.

BTW... you just want to see the difference between what Obama and Reagan said, because you rdon't want to believe that the Right has gone batshit crazy. Those former stalwarts of the GOP would now be called Moderates.... perhaps even "left leaning" by you guys these days.

 

[Mr. Shaman]

Ron Paul actually knew Ronald Reagan. He understands what Ronald Reagan stood for more than the other wannabes currently running. They all claim they know what Ronald Reagan was about but none of them knew the man as well as Ron Paul did. So go with Ron Paul on this issue.

Careful what you ask-for......​

January 23, 2012​

"Guatemala is taking steps to hold an ex-dictator accountable for genocide committed against Maya-Ixil Indians in the 1980s, even as the United States continues to honor the American president — Ronald Reagan — who helped make that genocide possible.

A Guatemalan judge orderedEfraín Ríos Montt to appear in court on Thursday in what could be the start of a process for trying the former military dictator on genocide charges for authorizing scorched-earth campaigns against Maya-Ixil villages suspected of sympathizing with leftist guerrillas.

In the late 1990s, a United Nations truth commission investigated the slaughters, which involved the killing of men, women and children, and labeled the massacres carried out during Ríos Montt’s 17-month reign in 1982 and 1983 as “genocide.” Two of Ríos Montt’s generals were arrested on war crimes and genocide charges last year.

However, while Guatemala, though beset by many serious problems including widespread poverty, takes politically difficult steps to impose some accountability on these war criminals, the U.S. politician most associated with Ríos Montt and his genocide, remains the subject of endless adoration.

The mere mention of Ronald Reagan’s name at Republican presidential debates is a sure-fire applause line.

If there is one consensus in the mainstream U.S. news media, it seems to be that not a discouraging word can be spoken about Ronald Reagan. On those rare occasions when major U.S. news outlets do make mention of the Guatemalan genocide of the 1980s, they circumspectly reframe the story to avoid mentioning Reagan’s role.

Yet, it was Reagan’s Cold War obsessions that emboldened right-wing “death squads” to slaughter tens of thousands of their own people across many parts of the Third World but no place more so than in the desperately poor countries of Central America."

DYIN'-TIME For ReRon's Legacy....FINALLY!!​