Distilling Ron Paul's "Foreign Policy"

Rush disparaged RP's foreign policy once again today.  So I'm compelled to make a follow up post. 

Foreign Policy is just a deliberately intimidating phrase some numbskull in Washington came up with. It simply refers to a way of dealing with people.  So let's get over it and begin to think for ourselves instead of listening to those who project themselves as way smarter than we are.  I mean journalists, talk show hosts and other pundits and talking heads.

Ron Paul says our actions led to the attacks against us on 9/11.  This is not to excuse or justify the murders of our fellow Americans that took place that day.  What he means is, we did some things they didn't like so in response they committed some horrific, evil acts.

Let's distill this down to the local level to make it more understandable.  Let's say I live on your block in your neighborhood.  The neighborhood consists mostly of small abodes, some of them barely inhabitable shacks.  You live in one of those shacks; yours happens to be on the corner.  I live in the middle of the block in a huge mansion.  I'm rich and powerful.  You're not.  I figure there's a chance that thieves, rapists and murderers will try to enter the neighborhood.  Since you're on the corner, I figure that's a strategic spot to set up some neighborhood defenses; say, a small bunker with a machine gun.  You're not happy about it, but I elbow my way into your yard.  After all, it makes you and me safer, right?  Well, you make it clear you want me off of your property.  I won't leave.  So you blow up my house, killing part of my family.  It's obvious that your crime of murder is much more heinous than my crime of trespassing.  But it's hard to argue against the fact that my actions led you to yours.  You're not excused or justified.  But, in hindsight, I can see that maybe it wasn't right for me to violate your individual inalienable (read: God-given) right to private property.

Here's another example:  The mayor of an affluent, neighboring town disagrees with what we allow to go on in our town.  The women are too immodest, too many people own guns, the church is teaching false doctrine, the divorce laws are too lax.  The neighboring town sends its police over and they capture and kill our mayor.  And install a new mayor of their choosing.  Are we okay with that?

What if China invaded us, out of concern for our underprivileged working class, and they imposed communism?  Yea!  They saved us from ourselves!  Thanks, China! 

To repeat: even when you're right, it's wrong to force others to do what you think is right. 

Evil dictators and regimes murder their people overseas.  It's terrible.  But they're adults.  They have to solve their own problems.  It's not possible for us to police the world.  And HELLO, look at the disastrous results when we try.  Vietnam, anyone?  How are things in Egypt?  "Palestine?"  Libya?  Korea?  Iraq?  Afghanistan?  We take out one evil regime, only to see it replaced by another, often worse evil regime.  If you watched the video in my last post, you know we've done this several times in Iran.  What are we, Mrs. Kravitz?  Let's get our noses out of other people's business.

Ron Paul just wants us to bring our troops home from Japan, Germany, Afghanistan, etc. and strengthen our home defenses.  Let's make America an impenetrable fortress and let those other sleeping dogs lie.  Besides, we can't afford it.

This is why I'll vote Ron Paul again in 2012

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPFQaLh-ycM

Please, please click the above link and watch the video.

Many are with Ron Paul domestically but not when it comes to foreign policy.  This has become the "conventional wisdom."  The "cool kids" are all down with the idea that, as Rush put it today, RP's foreign policy ideas are, "tin hat."  From Rush to Hannity to Glenn Beck to Michelle Malkin et. al. that's their view of Ron Paul.

Well, watch the video and decide for yourself.  Then continue your research of RP and let's restore this country to its constitutional roots.

I voted for him in 2008 because I couldn't countenance McCain.  I now understand him even better and he may be the last hope for the Republic.

I've said it before, but it bears repeating.  Romney and his buds are the equivalent of turning the reins over to someone who will slightly slow our career toward the cliff, but still take us into the abyss.  We MUST do a 180 and run back toward the constitution.  RP will do that.  THAT'S what's brought this country to its unprecedented prosperity: the FREEDOM protected by the constitution.

My siblings, force doesn't work.  Freedom works.  Force is evil.  It's the essence of unrighteous dominion.  God forces no one.  Even if you are right, it's wrong to force anyone to do what is right.  That goes for individuals as well as countries.

Do I wish for more handouts for the poor, free healthcare, education, citizenship, food, $million/year jobs for everyone?  Do I feel like we all should be giving more, as the Savior would have us do?  Of course!  Where Dr. Paul and I differ from the rest of you and your candidates is that we know that you can't put a gun to anyone's head and force him to give, to do those things.

Well, that's what America has become.  The government points a gun at those who earn money, takes it from them via taxes, and proceeds to give it to those who didn't earn it.  I'm all for giving to the poor, but let me be free to choose to do it; and let me also be free not to do it, if I so choose.  THAT is God's way.  And that way brings blessings to the giver as well as the receiver.  Come on. You don't really think He blesses legalized government mugging, do you?

It's called freedom.  And it's our only hope.  It's the only thing that makes America different from the dictatorships of the world, whether they be socialist, communist, fascist or monarchist.  Instead of trying to be like the "cool kids" here or around the world, let's be ourselves.  Let's be Americans.  And freedom is what makes us uniquely Americans.