Ron Paul and his position on Afghanistan.

[PHILIP SCHNEIDER]

A crawl through the fairy dust

By Wesley Pruden

George McGovern promised to “crawl on my knees” to Hanoi to quit the war in Vietnam. That didn’t win many friends among the grunts who fought the war designed by all those Harvard men, and Mr. McGoo’s campaign crashed and burned to the applause of nearly everyone in that distant year of 1972.

No one has accused Ron Paul of being a crawler, but he sometimes channels Mr. McGoo with his angry rhetoric against the wars in the Middle East. If he were president, he said last summer, he would bring home the new generation of grunts from Afghanistan “as quickly as the ships could get there.” Ships would find it hard going in land-locked Afghanistan, but we take his point.

But Mr. Paul has been nothing if not consistent, and he has consistently pushed himself to the margins of the national debate with his prescription for retreat into the Twilight Zone, where the world’s bad guys would roam unmolested by American arms. You might reasonably think this would make him a pariah among the young professionals who bear those arms in Iraq and Afghanistan.

But you would think wrong. Mr. Paul boasted in an interview with PBS “News Hour” that he’s the favorite, by one measurement, of the men and women serving in the military in the region.

“It’s insane what we’re doing [in the Middle East],” he said. “And I’ll tell you one thing about this business with the military. We just had a quarterly [campaign finance] report, and they listed all the money that all the candidates got from the military. I got twice as much as all the other candidates put together on the Republican side, and even more than [President] Obama got, which tells me that those troops want to come home as well, because they know exactly what I’m talking about.”

Figures compiled by the Federal Election Commission, which identifies donations by the donors’ employers, confirm the particulars of his boast. During the second quarter of 2011, for one example, Ron Paul received $25,000 from members of the military services. Six other Republican candidates received almost $9,000 during this reporting period, and Barack Obama pulled in $16,000.

Ron Paul says the troops just want to come home, and he’s no doubt right. For soldiers, like everyone else, there’s no place like hearth and home, be it ever so humble. But the men and women in Afghanistan are professionals and volunteers, sworn to go where they’re told to go. Like everyone else they make private judgments about the why and wherefore.

David French, who soldiered with an armored cavalry squadron in Iraq, observes in National Review Online that the wars in the Middle East have taught many American soldiers to be cynical. (Others would call them skeptical.) They’ve learned that the region “is a savage place that views human life cheaply and will never, ever be worth fighting to change.”

They feel betrayed by “good-idea fairies,” idealists whose good but unrealistic intentions get good soldiers killed by misplaced idealism and Sesame Street multiculturalism. Soldiers are accustomed to blunt, to-the-point talk, and that’s how Ron Paul talks. Some of them send him a few bucks from their Saturday-night beer money.

Many of these men in “the boots on the ground” have listened to the moonshine dispensed by the men who sent them on fool’s errands in the Middle East, from George W. Bush and his theological assurance that “Islam is a religion of peace” to Barack Obama’s craven tours of the Islamic world, bowing and apologizing for being an American. Ron Paul’s rhetoric, if you don’t listen to much of it, can sound pretty good. The soldiers don’t hear soft words, but hear someone “telling it like it is.”

Men dispatched to fight the fights disdained by “good-idea fairies” have small tolerance for the fairy dust the politically correct sprinkle on reality. When the Pentagon announced this week that a new aircraft carrier strike group had arrived in the Arabian Sea, where Iran has threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz to disrupt oil shipments, and that another carrier was on the way, a spokesman insisted that the maneuvering of the carriers was mere coincidence.

“I don’t want to leave anybody with the impression that we’re somehow [speeding] two carriers over there because we’re concerned about what happened,” the Pentagon spokesman said. Well, of course not.

And all that fairy dust was enough to choke everybody but Ron Paul.

What is there left to do in Afghanistan? Obama already gave away that we're leaving, that means we've given up ANY strategic positioning or a means to leave that country any real way to protect itself. Our Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was laughed at while she politely asked for more time to use bases in Afghanistan for our drones which dropped bombs on Taliban forces hiding in Pakistan.

Ron Paul is right as he screams for the withdrawal of our troops there. We're not wanted and we're no longer the friend of Afghanistan, we're perceived as the enemy.

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[Deborah Moore]

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[Deborah Moore]

Paul has 10 questionable backers.
For some reason I can only get 7 to show up.
Fair to show who he allows to support him.

[Leon Ewers]

Santorum and huntsman CFR members want WWIII. Bachman also in favor of WWIII.

[Leon Ewers]

Mitt Romney's father born in Mexico so he is not a natural born citizen.

George W. Romney

Romney in 1986 3rd United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development In office January 22, 1969 – January 20, 1973 President Richard Nixon Preceded by Robert Coldwell Wood Succeeded by James Thomas Lynn 43rd Governor of Michigan In office January 1, 1963 – January 22, 1969 Preceded by John Swainson Succeeded by William G. Milliken Personal details

Born George Wilcken Romney July 8, 1907 Galeana, Chihuahua, Mexico

Died July 26, 1995 (aged 88) Bloomfield Hills, Michigan Political party Republican Spouse(s) Lenore Romney Children Lynn Keenan, Jane Romney, G. Scott Romney, W. Mitt Romney

Profession Automobile industrialist Politician Religion The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-daySaints (Mormon)

Mitt Romney is also a bought and paid for Sachs man and a member of the CFR.

[Leon Ewers]

Santorum Nominated Penn State Jerry Sandusky for a “Congressional Angels in Adoption Award,” AFTER Sandusky Was Accused! - http://www.dailypaul.com/203544/santorum-nominated-penn-state-jerry...

[Leon Ewers]

Newt the salamander gangrene Gingrich is a rino at its worst. He is funded by the Rockefellers fondation, jp morgan and other international money changers. He is a member of the CFR. He will tell you one thing turn around and spit in your face while shooting you the birdy.


" One of the main bulwarks of the Progressive Establishment is the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). For over twenty years since 1990, Newt Gingrich has been a member of the powerful Council on Foreign Relations. Since 1921 the CFR has been single mindedly dedicated to the goal of undermining our National Sovereignty in order to promote a One World Government! In a speech given to the Center For Strategic and International Affairs in 1995, Newt Gingrich said, "The American challenge in leading the world is compounded by our Constitution…Either we are going to have to re-think our Constitution or we are going to have to re‑think our process of making decisions.”These are Newt Gingrich’s own words! And this is his track record. It is not complete by any stretch of the imagination but it is 100% accurate! He has a record of twenty years in public office that we can judge him by. Now, he's considering running for public office again, and no mean office mind you, but the highest office in the land, and you would like to know if Newt Gingrich is worthy of your trust and your consideration.

Well first of all, I must tell you that I am suspicious of anyone who wants to win high public office as bad as he does. The ideal model for a good public servant is George Washington, who didn't really want the job, only reluctantly agreed to accept the job, and who only aspired to leave public office and get out of the limelight and back home to Mt. Vernon as soon as he could! In contrast,Newt Gingrich has already been in the limelight and in public office for twenty years, and he has still not had enough! Newt represents the past and part of the reason that we are in the trouble we are in! Why don't we give someone else a chance instead of bringing back this tired, but still hungry old warhorse from out of the past?" - http://www.lessgovisthebestgov.com/Newt-Gingrich-Candidate-Presiden...

[Leon Ewers]

Romney is not a natural born citizen, his father was born in Mexico.

And Santorum has been linked to the Penn State College coach accussed of molesting kids.

And Newt the salamander is a RINO.

And Bachman is a rino ex IRS agent.

And Huntsman supports Obama and even worked under him. Is a rino also.

And Perry is a Bush stooge, drug pusher, Rino, fake.

Damn who's left, I am on a roll here! Lol.

[Leon Ewers]

What is it that Wesley said that caused you to scream at him Herta? I don't even see a comment from him on this thread.

[PHILIP SCHNEIDER]

Although Mr. Pruden has been very vocal against Ron Paul in the past. In this article, at least he gives Paul a fair shake re: our troops who love Ron Paul.

[Worried Grammie]

I'm leaning more and more toward Ron Paul.  I trust him more than I trust any of the other candidates, except maybe Santorum, but don't think he will get the nod.