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Ron Paul and the Dangers of Isolationism

August 7, 2009 - 12:00 am - by Spencer McCarthy
Simon
2009-08-08 08:03:20

Isolationism serves here, as it almost always does, as a straw man while Wilsonian neo”conservatives” can demolish easily. Unfortunately for that argument, Ron Paul is not an isolationist.

To the contrary, Dr. Paul and other conservatives have simply pointed out that massive, direct U.S. military intervention in a non-Western country aimed at “spreading democracy” is grossly imprudent, contrary to U.S. national interests, and antithetical to anything worthy of the name conservative.