A sure sign someone doesn’t have something worthwhile to say is when they have to use pejoratives to say it.
Comments that hinge on the terms Paultard, Ronulans, kook, tin-foil hat, or loon tell us something only about the person making the comment, not what that person is commenting on.
Reread any of the comments using such pejoratives, here or elsewhere, and take those pejoratives out of the comments.
What are you left with? Comments that say nothing.
Separately to mwl: What you call ‘isolationist,’ a type of groupthink pejorative that always catches my eye, I call non-interventionist.
Consider how successful we were previously with our ‘non-isolationist’ support of:
1) Diem in South Vietnam,
2) the Shah in Iran,
3) Saddam Hussein when he was at war with the Iranians, or;
4) bin Laden and the Afghan mujahedeen against the Soviet ‘non-isolationists.’
I’ve often noticed that Paul detractors have more passion than historical sense.
I also get the feeling that many may equate non-interventionalism with peace-loving ‘hippies’ who would just sit around in one, big ‘love-fest’ while Al-Qaeda ruthlessly invaded us and slit our throats in our sleep.
Not so! We could retract from ‘imperialistic’ nation-building foreign policy tomorrow and still maintain the greatest military force ever assembled in the history of the world.
I’ve also noticed that the form of representational democracy we have here in the US today is something that took us about 800 years worth of painful trial-and-error to produce — 200-plus years here in the US, and almost 600 years previous to that in England.
The thinking that believes we can do the world a big favor and install the benefits of our form of government elsewhere in the world in a short, maybe 50-year period, through the strategic placement of a few aircraft carriers, 50-150K ground troops, and a few hundred laser-guided bombs is tragically flawed.
Yes, that’s right, installing representational democracy in Iraq in only 50 years’ time, at a cost of $275,000,000 per day, would be a short, very short, period.
And how ‘affordable’ is that?
As an outsider, I’m not going to weigh in directly on the Ron Paul – Peden contest in Texas district 14, other than to thank the voters of district 14 for previously bringing Ron Paul to Congress, and now to national attention.
I’m hopeful that Ron Paul has served you well and he will decisively retain his congressional seat.
