You hope that Ron Paul would rethink his foreign policy. A question, sir: can we afford to spend a trillion dollars a year, much of it borrowed, on military operations and foreign aid? The stated goal of these operations is to stop terrorists, and the plan to stop terrorists is to topple and thwart evil governments. I fear this is perilously close to setting ourselves a goal of peace on earth through military force, something we couldn’t accomplish with 100 trillion dollars a year, let alone one.
I don’t agree with Paul on Iran, but I think his larger point is important: war is just as much responsible for driving us bankrupt as domestic spending. When will the war end? What’s our endgame? When will we be able to bring military spending down below, say, ten times more than all the other nations in the world combined? The Republican base has to come to terms with the cost of their desired foreign policy. What we’re doing now is just as crazy as the Democrats demanding the government make free heath care and college and jobs and lollipops for all. Neither party’s demands make any fiscal sense.
