Ron Paul On Af-Pak: Stop Helping

[Kevin_Kennedy]

While much of the country’s attention is on other issues, a serious situation is developing in Pakistan that threatens to plunge us into another fruitless and bloody war. It is very frustrating to see that many who were so vehemently against the wars of the last administration have suddenly lost interest in foreign policy simply because we were promised change.

Those still paying attention know that nothing could be further from the truth. Very little has changed, except perhaps rhetoric, but what does that matter when the bombing missions are only getting deadlier? Rather than drawing down violent military interventions into the affairs of other countries, the new administration is escalating the foreign policy of the previous administration.

Congressman Ron Paul - On Af-Pak: Stop "Helping" - Texas Straight Talk

 

[jillian]

You asked what i thought was naive about rp's foreign policy ideas...
everything, but the above is another example.

 

[Kevin_Kennedy]

What's naive about realizing that we can't afford our imperial aspirations be they Afghanistan, Pakistan, or Iraq? And what's naive about realizing that killing innocent civilians, be they Afghani, Pakistani, or Iraqi, will lead to negative consequences, not to mention that its just wrong?