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Thursday, November 29, 2007

Isolationism versus Noninterventionism

I saw most of the debate. Here was Ron Paul's best moment, coming after John McCain accused him of being an isolationist (transcript here):
He doesn't even understand the difference between non-intervention and isolationism. I'm not an isolationism, (shakes head) em, isolationist. I want to trade with people, talk with people, travel. But I don't want to send troops overseas using force to tell them how to live. We would object to it here and they're going to object to us over there.

2 comments:

LarryRuane said...

That was a high point. Giuliani, on the other hand ... even when he's superficially right, he gets it fundamentally wrong:

"The Second Amendment clearly gives you the right to carry and to bear arms." (Emphasis mine.)

Mike said...

I agree Sheldon.

As a Canadian observer to this, I enjoyed that one the most. And FWIW, even my statist lefty progressive friends up here thing Ron Paul was the most honest and principled of the lot, even when they didn't agree with what he said.