Thursday, May 17, 2007

Ron Paul: Educating Rudy

Here’s an interesting video of Ron Paul covering the subject which he is taking heat for right now, with the press already declaring Rudy the winner and beginning to call for the ousting of Paul from the debates.

You may disagree with Dr. Paul on this one overall, but if you’re going to make an argument, argue against his points, please.  I believe he’s making strong arguments in this case.

Also, please note that I don’t think this is exactly parallel with the discussion regarding dealing with the growing muslim situation which is making many people nervous.  And I don’t necessarily believe that any issues that arise in that discussion will be resolved by what Dr. Paul is proposing.  I think that issue will probably need to be dealt with separately and require its own long-term strategy apart from what’s going on in Iraq.

** Supplemental **

We’re in a tough spot right now and I don’t necessarily think it’s as simple as Dr. Paul is making it sound.  The enemy is angry at us and growing.  Pulling out will likely only incite further violence from them.  But I don’t think fighting in Iraq is necessarily synonymous with fighting the terrorist enemy.  The difficult thing about our current enemy is that they’re such an amorphous group that it makes it difficult for us to know where to take the fight to.

In short, if this thing can be “won” at all, our military needs to have defined targets and we need to knock those targets out with all the fury we can muster.  I think the hardest part of this whole thing is going to be nailing down the correct targets.  Once that’s been done, the hardest part of this fight will be over.