Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Ron Paul Supporters

I'm impressed with the rhetorical excesses that I am seeing from Ron Paul supporters--the fanaticism that I heard from a couple of his supporters at the GRPC is apparently not just a quirk of those few. Over at Unalienable Rights, a Ron Paul backer:
Listen at length to any Neocon and it will soon become clear to you what drives them - fear.
Oh my, they scare us, let’s kill them!
The feminization of America has fallen squarely on the shoulders of Neocons. What a bunch of girly-men.
We’re scared of the terrorist who might attack us - and you know why they would attack us - because we are so wonderful!
Foreign Policy is the simplest venture of all - all one has to do is think what would happen if you went to your neighbor’s yard and took a leak. Do you think your neighbor will have anything to say about you pissing in his yard?
It’s called blowback - its a causality relationship. You piss in my yard I’m going to have something to say about it. Foreign policy is as simple as one neighbor to another.
But, no, its not because we are meddling in other people’s affairs - could never be something like that. It’s because we are Americans that they hate us. We are free and they hate us because of it.
Please. Don’t be so boorish.
Listen to this NeoCon in lemming-like fashion repeat the dictator Bush’s diatribe. Personally, I don’t listen to infants who only recently learned how to tie their own shoes or wipe their own butt. This kid has those kaleidascope eyes that betray his ideological hero-worship.

As I have said in the past, I understand the non-interventionist foreign policy argument and I see some merit to it. But the people that did 9/11 were overwhelmingly from countries where we have never intervened in their internal politics. The only U.S. troops stationed in the Middle East back then were placed there at the request of the governments in question, in response to a very real fear of invasion by Iraq.

Oh yes, "dictator Bush." Come on. He was elected twice. The Iraq War Authorization for Use of Military Force passed both houses of Congress by wide margins.

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