I believe it is safe to say, the biggest hurdle Dr. Ron Paul faces in his bid to capture the GOP nomination for President is the position he takes on foreign policy. While most people I associate with, both in my personal life and on Political Realities and the blogosphere, agree with Paul on economic and financial issues, many of them disagree with him foreign policy. Many of them fear what a President Paul’s foreign policy would look like, especially in regards to Iran, Israel, and the rest of the Middle East. I could easily drone on about how I agree with the good Doctor that the United States needs to revamp its approach to the rest of the world, but I think I can do one better than that.
To all of my regular readers who do not agree with Ron Paul on foreign policy, and to anyone who may randomly come across this post through a search engine, I ask you to do one thing. Please watch the short video I have embedded below and feel free to leave your comments and thoughts afterwards. This video articulates the underlying problems with our current foreign policy, why it should be changed, and it does it much better than anything I could write. It is the same video Sherman Broder posted in the comments of yesterday’s post, but it deserves a post of its own. After you have finished, it should be clear that Ron Paul’s foreign policy is not isolationism Instead, it is a non-interventionist foreign policy that would stand us in much better stead than the policies we have followed for many, many years. I only ask that you give it your consideration with an open mind.
LD,
I got linked on the campaigns site this weekend!
I’m so excited!
I agree that foreign policy is what held me back for a long time. But since then I’ve come to change my mind only by careful study and consideration. I had to wonder if RP was actually naive, when he was so ahead of the game with the Fed. I found that he sat on the Int’l Affairs committee, so I knew that he was hearing what the rest of them were hearing. One thing to consider, that in all my years of listening to Rush et al, I was never educated on the Federal Reserve and how it was the root cause of Big Government. So I had to figure I wasn’t getting the whole foreign policy angle either. And man, oh man, have I learned a lot.
Welcome to the only candidate who makes sense in this election!
You were linked on RonPaul2012.com? I bet that was interesting.
You aren’t the only one who has learned a lot. I am coming around later than you, but some of the things that I have discovered from reading and doing my own research are quite disturbing.
Oh, yeah. I know what you mean! When you get down to brass tacks, things start to make sense, but at the same time you feel like you’re in a Twilight Zone episode.
Thanks for the mention. I appreciate it very much.
No problem, Sherman.
I enjoyed the video, too. I shared it on Facebook, but I’m not planning to write on presidential politics any time soon. Perhaps it will come up again.
Diplomacy versus drone strikes. Is that isolationist? And why do so many people who were actually on the ground in both of our recent Middle East conflicts support Ron Paul? Which do you trust more, a Washington technocrat or a PFC who had boots on the ground?
The strange thing is, many people who realize our government is corrupt and that bureaucracy of it is out of hand, still think Ron Paul is wrong on his foreign policy. That’s something I can’t understand.
Wonderful post! Thanks for all you’re doing in the fight for liberty!
Great idea for an article but I won’t be voting for Paul because of his foreign policy ideas. Domestic policy… that is different. I know his intentions are good but I just can’t do it.