Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Stockman Scott's Political Debate Porch -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Farmboy who wrote (89074)	7/5/2012 6:21:07 PM
From: Cautious_Optimist	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 89467

I would be somewhere between Obama and Ron Paul. We have to be careful not to run other country's revolutions, or intervene when it doesn't produce the results we "approve" of. However, where I differ with Paul is I think we at some point, with our responsible allies, need to play a brave humane role when there is clear genocide. As we did in Bosnia. As we failed to do in a few other instances. We need to measure our handling of the situation. Like with Pakistan, we have tremendous leverage with our foreign aid to this strategic country, and we will use that along with diplomacy. Obama gets high marks for Egypt, a damage-control game. He could not control, like the US Supreme Court did here in 2000, :-) who got elected. Egypt, an important strategic friend of the US in the region, is not finished with its self-determination process. Syria is much worse in its process.