Ron Paul's Questionable Stance on Foreign Policy

Dear Readers,

My political identity crisis continues. I really do like Ron Paul. He’s awesome. But Mitt Romney is awesome, too! And Mitt Romney and Ron Paul are competitors! What do I do? Obviously I can’t equally like them both. They both might run for president in 2012, so it’s very important that I decide which one I like better right now! Ha ha ha.

Seriously, I agree with Paul about a lot of issues such as getting America out of the United Nations, about cutting government spending, and about dramatically cutting the size and power of the federal government. And he’s a really refreshing politician, too. He seems honest and good-hearted. And he’s a good family man.

But his “non-interventionist” foreign policy, as he calls it, worries me a little.

When it comes to 9/11, especially, Ron Paul says stuff like, “the U.S. is partially responsible for terrorist attacks because we’ve been messing with the Middle East’s business. We should mind our own business. They don’t hate us just because we’re rich and prosperous. They hate us because we were mean to them first.” I’m exaggerating and twisting his message a little, but you get what I mean.

Paul talks a lot about how America has become an imperialist, nation-building Empire. What I’m worried about is that Paul might be right about that. It may be true that America is kind of a prideful bully.

Ron Paul’s main point isn’t that the U.S. is mean, but that the U.S.’s current foreign policy is financially unsustainable, so we ought to worry about our own country before we try to fix other countries. That makes sense.

But I kind of have the opinion that America has a moral obligation to peacefully spread democracy and capitalism and Christianity throughout the world. That’s a bold statement, but it’s what I believe. I believe that Americans should spread these wonderful things not with an attitude of pride or superiority, but out of a sincere desire for the happiness of the human family.

In other words, I believe that America shouldn’t just mind its own business.

I wonder if Ron Paul would have wanted to stay out of World War 2 if the attack on Pearl Harbor never would have happened, if America’s turf was never actually attacked. Hmmm… I feel like America had a moral obligation to help rescue Europe from Hitler and the Nazis.

Likewise, I believe that Israel is a great ally to America, and I believe that America has a moral obligation to protect Israel from radical anti-Semites who want to wipe Israel off the map. I’m thinking especially of the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Maybe you’ve heard in the news lately how he “won” the election. (It was all a fraud. That election was far from democratic.)

The truth is, Presidnet Ahmadinejad is a very bad man. That’s why I drew a picture of him with devil horns. I’m worried that he’s a lot like Adolf Hitler. He’s demonizing the Jews, he wants his people to hate Jews, he’s trying to get nuclear weapons so he can blow up Israel, and he violently crushes dissent.

Yes, I know, America has it’s own problems, and our government does a lot of bad things, too, and I should not be so high and mighty. But at least we don’t have a President who denies the Holocaust, and at least we have many more civil liberties than Iranians do.

Sincerely,

Telemoonfa