Ron Paul was on "Morning Joe" today. Joe Scarbourough asked him if he would have supported any war we've had this century. No to the current one, of course. No to stopping the ethnic cleansing in the Balkans at no loss of American lives. No to the first Gulf War, so Saddam gets Kuwait. No to Vietnam. No to Korea. Yes, with an asterisk, for WWII. No to WWI.
The WWII question showed how out of touch he is with historical reality. According to him, we had to fight that one because we were attacked. But, we wouldn't have been attacked if Wilson hadn't brokered a bad armistice at Versailles. Hmmm, I thought we were attacked by Japan. They were on our side in WWI. And how would a different Versailles Treaty have changed the power politics of the Far East? True, it might have been a Pacific war instead of a world war, but we had been heading for a conflict with Japan since the 1920s.
He was bemused about all the money he had raised, the biggest one day take of any candidate in history, according to Joe.
It seems like he is an old "America First" isolationist. That philosophy has a lot of appeal, as soon as we are able to build a force shield over our country. <G>
Still, he is honest in his lunacy and is more fun than most of the candidates.
He does have the problem that Baby Jesus is endorsing Huckleberry Hound. At least according to Huckleberry's latest ad. I find Huck a fun guy to watch, too.
Mike Gravel is as crazy as those two, but no fun to watch. |
