Topic: Presidential Campaign 2008
Bill O'Reilly goes Crazy on TV - Ron Paul Offers Intervention Bill O'Reilly has had a history of mental illness in his professional life. Dr. Paul has the cure.by Stephen Wood
(libertarian)
Friday, January 11, 2008
Bill O'Reilly said that the Republicans offered no plan for Pakistan and specifically criticized Ron Paul who said we don't need to intervene at all in Pakistan's affairs.
Bill, you may want to be careful about being so irrational, your family may have to plan an intervention with Dr. Phil!
If, as you say, we have to have a plan for Pakistan, specifically to control who is in control over there, your argument would dictate that we need to be making similar plans for India as there are terrorists there who could take over their nukes. Don't forget Russia as well as most of the former Soviet Republic. My point is that we are no longer capable of pretending to be the world's policeman. We can no longer say it is in our best interest.
Remember, we gave money and weapons to Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan to fight the Russians. Now we are supposedly hunting for him. Have you heard any reports lately about that mission?
We gave weapons and money to Sadaam Hussein to fight the Iranians, then we blew them all up when we decided he was a threat to peace. Years ago, we secretly got rid of a democratically elected leader in Iran to replace him with a Dictator, the Shah because the Shah would keep selling us his country's oil.
We support a Dictator in Pakistan presently because, uh, oh yeah he will make sure we continue to get the oil that we so desperately want and need. But as far as democracy goes, the good people of Pakistan and Iran apparently don't deserve the same help we have given to the Afghans and the Iraqis.
Dr. Paul has offered the only logical solution in the middleeast and that is that we have to come home. Do we honestly believe that we have the right or obligation to be in a country with our military? Another example of our foreign policy arrogance; North and South Korea asked us to get our 50,000 troops off of their border, Bush refused.
By giving weapons and money to puppet dictators like Musharraf, we are playing a very stupid game of chess with the world. The smartest thing we could do is to listen to all world leaders and their people through the marketplace. We should seek to buy and sell services with countries who are willing to trade with us at terms negotiated honestly, above the table. On the other hand, our military technology needs to be protected as if our lives depended on it instead of selling our weapons systems for profit around the world.
Yes Mr. O'Reilly, it is a bitter pill to swallow, but America's foreign policy has been a little bit like Britney Spears, we've acted irrationally, our leaders have destroyed a beautiful thing and we need help. Thankfully, the good Dr. Paul has a plan and it is exactly what this country needs.
Ron Paul believes that we should respect the sovreignty of other countries before we demand they respect ours.
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