Hunkered Between Santorum and Paul Lies Peace Through Total War
Dear Mike,
Ron Paul must be recognized for his own particular brilliance, but he is wrong about his utopian ideals of foreign relations. As others have pointed out, the Barbary Wars, the United States first foreign wars, were also our first encounter with the menace of Islam.
As history records, our unarmed merchant ships were seized, the cargoes looted, and the crews enslaved by Islamic jihadists following the mandates and traditions of Muhammed. This was before the modern state of Israel, before there existed any American foreign policy, before we had a Navy or any overseas military bases, and before the repulsive cultural exports of Britney Spears or hamburger imperialism.
It serves to show that in spite of our best hopes and wishes, reality proves that some peoples maintain ideologies that are antithetical to ours, and in fact seek to destroy us simply because we are us.
~ The Infidel Alliance
