Re: Who Schooled Whom?

Iran is not the Soviet Union, it is a bunch of fanatics who hate
Western Civilization, and especially America
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they have a damn good reason to hate the US

treating them any differently from other muslim nations and attempting
to stop them from developing nukes is folly

RP's foreign policy is pro-American, not pro-Israel
choose sides carefully

On Aug 17, 1:41 pm, Keith In Tampa <keithinta...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello PlainOl!
>
> How about from the horse's mouth, on August 12th, at the Ames Iowa debate,
> with regard to Iran, and a question from Chris Wallace,  who asked:
>
> *"Congressman Paul -- Congressman Paul, you say that President Obama is not
> too soft on Iran, you say that he is too tough on Iran. I want to put up
> some of your statements. "Sanctions are not diplomacy," you say. "They are a
> precursor to war and an embarrassment to a country that pays lip service to
> free trade." As for Iran's nuclear ambitions, you wrote this: "One can
> understand why they might want to become nuclear capable, if only to defend
> themselves and to be treated more respectfull"*
>
> *"Is that your policy towards Iran?"*
>
> **
> **
> Congressman Paul responded in part:
> * *
> **
>
> *"....Just think of the agitation and the worrying of a country that might
> get a nuclear weapon some day. And just think of how many nuclear weapons
> surround Iran. The Chinese are there. The Indians are there. The Pakistanis
> are there. The Israelis are there. The United States is there. All these
> countries -- China has nuclear weapons. "*
> *
>
> "Why wouldn't it be natural that they might want a weapon? There'd be --
> internationally, they'd be given more respect. Why should we write people
> off? There was -- you know, in the '50s, we at least talked to them. At
> least our leaders and Reagan talked to the Soviets.
> *
>
> *What's so terribly bad about this?"*
>
> Wallace followed up:
>
> *"Congressman Paul -- Congressman Paul, I want to just give you 15 seconds.
> I want to just make sure I understand. So your policy towards Iran is, if
> they want to develop a nuclear weapon, that's their right, no sanctions, no
> effort to stop them?"*
>
> *PAUL: "No, I think that -- I think that thing -- that makes it much worse.
> Why would that be so strange, if the Soviets and the Chinese have nuclear
> weapons? We tolerated the Soviets; we didn't attack them.
> And they were a much greater danger -- they were the greatest danger to us
> in -- our whole history. You don't go to war against them."*
> **
> *========
> *
> **
> As stated, I have the utmost respect for Dr. Paul, and I think he is a
> brilliant individual, who has sound economic and fiscal polices that the
> Republican Party are now adopting.  Kudos to Paul, and the Tea Party for
> finally seeing the light!
>
> I do not agree with Dr. Paul's foreign policy, and I find it just outright
> naive!  Iran is not the Soviet Union, it is a bunch of fanatics who hate
> Western Civilization, and especially America.  Dr. Paul doesn't see this or
> realize this.
>
> On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 1:34 PM, plainolamerican
> <plainolameri...@gmail.com>wrote:
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> > For Dr. Paul to advocate
> > Iran's nuclear capabilities is just flat out scary
>
> > ---
> > cite source
>
> > On Aug 17, 9:11 am, Keith In Tampa <keithinta...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I would agree that our foreign policy of, "Nation Building"  was
> > misguided
> > > and not in the best interests of the United States.  I would also call
> > > "Nation Building"  a form of "Intervention".
>
> > > There is a distinction however, between "Intervention"  and "Isolation".
> > > Dr. Paul espouses the latter, and that is just as misplaced as Nation
> > > Building.  In fact, It's far more dangerous.  For Dr. Paul to advocate
> > > Iran's nuclear capabilities is just flat out scary.  A clear indication
> > that
> > > Paul denies the reality of the world today.  Dr. Paul is a brilliant guy,
> > > he is just flat out misplaced on what constitutes a danger to our Nation.
>
> > > On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 4:22 AM, raymorphic <raymorp...@yahoo.com>
> > wrote:
> > > > "It didn't make Dr. Paul any more correct with regard to history, or
> > > > his
> > > > foreign policy."
>
> > > > I'm not sure about the history part; what I refer to as sensible was
> > > > the foreign policy solution.
>
> > > > America do not like interventionists foreign policies.
>
> > > > We couldn't run our country well, let alone running other people's
> > > > countries.
>
> > > > In addition, we're in no financial position to intervene.
>
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