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Letters - 2/2
Paul’s foreign policy
In a recent Fox News debate, Anchor Bret Baier recently claimed that Ron Paul’s foreign policy is “to the left of Barack Obama.” Actually, nothing could be further from the truth. The current foreign policy of the Obama administration is a progressive foreign policy that dates back to Democrat Woodrow Wilson when he claimed America should “make the world safe for Democracy.”
President Obama is not “soft” on war. As commander in chief, he is currently ordering the military to bomb Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia and Afghanistan, where he has sent more troops than Bush. He recently authorized as many as 5,000 military contractors into Iraq. As a matter of fact, almost every war president in the 20th century with the exception of George H. W. Bush, was a Democrat.
From Franklin Roosevelt to Harry Truman to Lynden B. Johnson, Democrats and liberals were the war presidents. We spend nearly a trillion dollars a year on overseas spending. Policing the world is not conservative. Great American patriots such as George Washington and Thomas Jefferson advocated that we stay out of entangling alliances. John Quincy Adams said this about America’s role in the world: “Americans should not go abroad to slay dragons they do not understand in the name of spreading democracy.”
Ron Paul agrees with Washington, Jefferson and Adams. We should not be playing the role of world policeman. We are broke. Our brave soldiers have donated more money to Ron Paul than to any other candidate running for president. It’s time we focus on our own border (where thousands of innocent people have died due to the drug war) rather than borders in the Middle East thousands of miles away. This to me is common sense. Ron Paul is the only candidate running for president who has a specific plan to balance the budget. As a conservative, I am voting for Ron Paul.
— Dustin Petersen
Independent commented, on February 14, 2012 at 9:06 a.m.:
As far as the Republican candidates go, Dr. Paul is at the top of my list, however, it is not fair to say that war is favored by liberals rather than conservatives. If you look at polls discussing issues of war, you will most likely see conservatives far more in favor of war that liberals. Conservative Christians were the largest social group to support the Iraq war. Liberals are often criticized for being "sissies" when it comes to times of war.
Not to say there aren't conservative groups that take a stand against war (because there are), but it would be an over simplification to say that war is a liberal or conservative thing... It's a special interest thing.
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