Paul Nelson wrote:
China already is a superpower.
Which we made so by stunting free trade with so many strings and ropes
and gotchas that a Lilliputian would be proud. If you unleash the small
US entrepeneur like he was beforetimes, of old, and tie down the Fed
instead (to a great big rock) and throw it in the Atlantic where it
can't come back up, and take all the resources poured into a sissy's war
--that they tried to avoid winning at all costs for six years-- take
those resources like Ron Paul said, then you'd have the wherewithal to
make sure the nation could defend itself.
Oh, and guess who is the ONLY candidate who /consistently/ voted against
approving an _/undeclared/_ war at the presidential whim? From the first
vote?
Who is the /_only_/ candidate who has voted against any un-balanced
budget, every single time?
The Iraqis (and most Middle Easterners) demonstrate daily that they don't want us around. If they did, they would have the courage to shine spotlights on the bad guys.
Few people really want chaos, and the unreported and underreported story
is that the whole situation is improving there in almost all ways, and
the Iraquis have indeed been shining the spotlight on the bad guys.
It was hilarious and outrageous to hear a program on PBS on the way to
work the other day. They went looking for all six ex-military they could
find that found the cloud in that silver lining.
I'm still with Ron Paul on this issue, but gosh' sake it would be good
to see some decent balance once in awhile besides just radio talk shows!
(and precious little of it there!)
I think Paul's (both our Paul, and Ron Paul) suggestion on leaving Iraq (the entire middle east) to Iran and China (today) is not a long term plus for the US.
If we would do this, several other changes would be made in US policy.
1) We decide that China is the superpower, mirroring the US (it is
already?)
That's not a change at all! China already is, and the entire current
slate of all the candidates except for the one and only, all of them
have helped China along to the goal, not to mention a recent president
who approved technology to make sure they could aim their missiles straight.
2) We abandon any offensive initiative against Islamic extremists/terrorists, both in defense of Israel and the US.
That's another issue, but Iraq was contrived into the role. China is
much more a danger to prepare against. It doesn't have to be an
abandonment anyway. The U.S. has to get back on track economically,
culturally, spiritually, and in resolve first. Israel is a different
issue though, but Palestinians would like to be free from all the
shooting too, most of them, I would think...
We currently depend on the UN for "nation building", which it has
shown it can't handle... Gerald Magnuson
And there's an understatement...
--Alan
