You claiming Ron Paul's supporters are somehow in worship of the man is as equally absurd if not moreso than to say that the only reason he HAS detractors is because conservatives that rally against him can't stand the idea of someone that isn't conservative across the board, or, that he is simply hurting the chances of one of YOUR idols (Rudy, Thompson) to get elected. Considering the behavior of the Paul supporters I have met online and in person, I stand by my mockery of them by comparing them to supporters of a personality cult. I would not be the least bit surprised if I were to walk into their homes and find 10X16 portraits of him on every wall of their houses, they way they talk of him. By the way, when have I mentioned support of Giuliani or Thompson? Granted, I like some of what they have to say, but it’s not enough to get me to vote for them. I probably won’t make up my mind until I get to the polling place. But I can assure you, I won’t be voting for a whiny reactionary flake like Paul who thinks it would be GREAT if Americans sat around like sheep waiting eagerly to be slaughtered...and nor will I vote in the Democratic primary.

Anyways, my point was, Ron Paul, right or wrong in his choice to believe we shouldn't be backing Israel to the degree we are, has NOTHING to do with anti-semitism. Again, let me repeat this, he doesn't see the logic in getting involved in conflicts that are none of our business. And even if he wasn’t making anti-Semitic statements (I eagerly await your answers to my questions as it is well past lunch as I type this), he is still showing extremely dangerous naivete. Japan’s forging a “Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere” wasn’t our business either, until 7 December 1941. Then it BECAME our business. And that is the thing both you and Paul REFUSE to see. Problems that may not seem like they effect us in the beginning wind up to become very big issues later that are VERY much our business later. History demonstrates this time and again. Hence my desire to remain vigilant and on the offensive. You can be a sheep all you want. I prefer to be a wolf. With VERY sharp teeth and an attitude problem towards those who wish to screw around. B: He believes the nation is strong enough to handle itself, not that 'oh they are dirty jews so they don't deserve our help.' Indeed, our government agrees. Last time I checked, we do not station our troops there outside Marine guards. Also, can you find for me a defense treaty we have penned with Israel? We haven’t run an operation like Nickel Grass in 34 years, and I would submit the main reason we ran that op was because it was more out of fear of Soviet intervention than anything else. Later that month, Nixon put the nuclear triad on worldwide alert after the Soviets made some noise about intervening in the Middle East as the Arabs started getting their a$$es kicked.  All we do is sell them the weaponry for them to defend THEMSELVES, and back them politically.  They do the rest.

Ron Paul is unhappy that we are ALSO funnelling our own funds over there to a degree perhaps not necessary as, yes, it IS important we defend Israel, but it is NOT our job to fight their battles FOR them and the money spent on such acts could be better allocated within our own nation, as Ron Paul believes and that is because Ron Paul is, when it comes to foreign policy, is a blithering f*!#ing idiot. The idea is to spend a little to keep the battles and threats far from our shores, instead of spending a LOT of money later when it eventually HITS our shores (and along our way screws up the economy). He obviously learned nothing from Pearl Harbor. Also, why spend so much money protecting a nation who doesn't really need it? Where is all of this money you claim is being spent on Israel? None of our troops are stationed there outside Marine guards (I can’t imagine anything else other than MAYBE a handful of other assorted troops being there briefly, or sailors on shore leave). And, once again, the State of Israel spend vast amounts of shekels here on weaponry. Check out their aircraft inventory sometime. Where do you think most of those planes come from?During the summer war we kept our place, but had the fighting EVER been close to threatening the overall state of Israel, not even Ron Paul would just sit idly. If Ron Paul would not sit idly in that case, he would then contradict himself.

It is our business to 'take care of our own' but it is NOT our job to enter alliances to the effect of the alliances that caused the two world wars. I know that it is your reactionary dream to wake up in a 1797 America where it was forced to concentrate on its internal development, but those days are GONE. You are going to have to accept that reality. Or, perhaps you want America to be as whiny and pathetic as possible, with citizens WAITING to be slaughtered? I sure would love to know what alliance the United States entered in either of the world wars, and which of the alliances has caused a war. Did you know, for instance, that the US-Japan alliance only costs the United States the amount to pay our troops there, and their equipment? The Japanese pay for the bases our troops use. Besides, the alliances the United States has entered has had the abiding effect of KEEPING THE PEACE by the threat of American intervention, and under that umbrella, people have prospered on both sides of the Atlantic and Pacific. When people don’t fight, they tend to trade. The money we have spent on that is but a drop in the bucket compared to the trade that has been engendered.

Show me how any of that boils down to Ron Paul being anti-semetic. Do I need to put away my 8-color box of crayons in favor of a box of FOUR? I find Paul’s statement about the Israeli government being the biggest lobby in Washington both factually inaccurate AND anti-Semitic. Outside of Israel, his idea of making America as whiny and as powerless as possible by placing it on the permanent defensive, is nothing short of naive at best and utterly idiotic at worst.

How is not wanting to intervene in a nation's smaller affairs and spats because it saves us money and they can handle themselves equate to being anti-semetic? Again, wanting to render America as whiny and pathetic a nation as possible, and inviting its citizens to be slaughtered, all in the name of “SAVING MONEY!!!”, is dangerously naive at best and utterly idiotic at worst. I would prefer the terrorists get killed in Baghdad, not after killing my countrymen in Boston. I would prefer the Iranians be dealt with in Iran, not after they sail a nuke up the Houston Ship Channel to its turning basin. Again, using two crayons this time...what Ron Paul said about ISRAEL is anti-Semitic; his isolationist, ignore-the-Big-Bad-World-and-it-will -Just-Go-Away-I-Hope approach to foreign policy is naive at best and idiotic at worst.

And as for the cancer comment that is so off base and I pray you know it and were simply looking to trap me by assuming I couldn't see the glaring differences. Cancer can be treated. The situation over there is not as simple. And neither is cancer. Actually, a BETTER analogy would be, after chemo treatment and someone's cancer is in remission, would you INSIST they keep on chemo just in case? YOU would send them home with a plate of cookies and a glass of cold milk, insist they never need see a doctor again, and never to worry about it. Besides, cancer treatment COSTS MONEY. Isn’t the whole purpose of life to SAVE MONEY??? I, on the other hand, would want to watch and see if the cancer ever comes back so it could be immediately snuffed out, hopefully without the use of chemo or radiation treatment.

So someone who is in remission is much like Israel over there currently. They CAN survive it, there is no nation over there that can even come close to militarily matching Israel. I suggest you read up on the Yom Kippur War. If you are doing research as you say, you are already without even knowing it.

just not getting quite so involved with the aggression they face from other nations, which, ideally, is none of our damn business. Ideally is the key word, isn’t it? The world isn’t built on happy idealism. If I wanted happy, rose-colored glass idealism, I’d vote Democratic, not for flakes like Paul.

Long story short, it comes down to money. And this is why I prefer to privatize Social Security and Medicaid, and institute a “flat tax” of 17% across the board with zero deductions or breaks. Eviscerating the Defense Department and rendering the United States unable to do ANYTHING in its interests except whimper and whine only COSTS more money in the long run. Dr. Paul feels spending funds on a military presence in a nation perfectly capable of handling themselves is not financially feasible nor intelligent. The doctor needs to stick to what he knows, meaning, he needs to go back to the delivery room and stay there, and leave the foreign policy and defense of the United States to the grownups.. Again, your homework assignment is to show me how much money we spend on Israel’s defense.  

I leave you with my tagline.  That is bound to make both you and Paul extremely angry.

Qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum.