https://pjmedia.com/spengler/2011/12/29/mullah-ron-paul/feed/PJ Media is a leading news site covering culture, politics, faith, homeland security, and more. Our reporters and columnists provide original, in-depth analysis from a variety of perspectives.en-usTue, 09 Jun 2026 22:21:52 -0400<![CDATA[Rep. Ron Paul&#8217;s defense of Iran&#8217;s nuclear weapons program should surprise no one. The same resentment motivates Ron Paul and the Iranian leadership &#8212; a paranoid hostility toward a world that is swiftly changing and has little mercy, and a Millenarian desire to return to a mythical, untroubled past. Get rid of the Federal Reserve, scourge the bankers, return to a gold standard and erect a wall around the United States &#8212; and we will return to when? To 1957, when the Russians launched the first space satellite, alerting the United States to the danger that it might lose the Cold War? Then, as always, we prevailed, but by the skin of our teeth. Ron Paul&#8217;s program is an American version of the Iranian desire to return to a world of Islamic purity that never existed, any more than did a golden age of American isolationism.]]>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 06:16:40 -0500<![CDATA[David P. Goldman]]>https://pjmedia.com/david-p-goldman/2011/12/29/mullah-ron-paul-n130672