Matt Yglesias draws attention to Ron Paul's observation on the ABC debate that the same Republicans saying that if we leave Iraq now, Armageddon will ensue are the ones who assured us that if we invaded Iraq, it would all be duck soup. And:
The best part of the clip, though, is when Mitt Romney interrupts with the nonsensical question "has he forgotten 9/11?" I'm not sure anything better sums up the vacuity of conventional present-day conservative thinking about national security than that intervention: the presumption that, somehow, endless invocations of that horrible crime will justify anything at all, no matter how unrelated, how pointless, or how counterproductive it may be.
Ya might not like scrappy little Ron Paul, but for pity's sake, spare us Slick Mitt! I'm liable to vote for Paul because whatever else he is, he's not a b.s. artist.
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Ron Paul's also six feet tall, so don't call him little!
Now Dukakis, there was a little fella.
Hmm, I didn't think it was a bad nickname, "culture of 911."
I like most things about Mitt, but for while I've told others that his foreign policy rhetoric leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
That being said, Paul's retort is just as vacuous. The fact that people made the same claim in a different situation doesn't refute its truthfulness in our current situation. Don't be fooled, Ron Paul can spit out as much B.S. as any other politician.
Vacuous? It's not on the merits, and may be a red herring, but it's not unreasonable to doubt we will hear prudent solutions from those with a track record of imprudence. Particularly from those who continue to embrace policies of interventionism. Certainly it's worth pointing out the same policy that got us where we are, continues to be touted. I think James Burnham wrote of the commies' bizarre belief that they just didn't have enough communism. If only everyone were better communists and we had more of them then you'd really see what an economic powerhouse a communist country could be. Isn't Paul simply noting that more of the same is likely to get us . . . well, more of the same?
"If only everyone were better communists and we had more of them then you'd really see what an economic powerhouse a communist country could be." Kind of like China, eh?
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