This is a terrific illustration of the false premises of American foreign policy.
<>Ron Paul officially a presidential candidate
http://dailypaul.com/163667/tim-pawlenty-and-ron-paul-are-officially-running-for-president
Tim Pawlenty and Ron Paul are officially presidential candidates.
Both formed “exploratory committees” in the previous month and a half, for the purpose of exploring the possibilities of candidacy.
Both have filed for presidential candidacy in South Carolina — a requirement for participating in the first GOP primary debate of the 2012 election cycle, cohosted in Greenville, S.C., by Fox News and the South Carolina Republican Party.
And both candidates were aware that, by doing so, they have officially become presidential candidates in the eyes of the law. Spokesmen for both Pawlenty and Paul acknowledged that filing for candidacy in South Carolina changes their bosses’ status in the eyes of the Federal Election Commission.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/05/tim-pawl…<>
Why Ron Paul’s chances are better in 2012?
I have stated this several times, but Paul Mulshine states it better:
If Ron…were to run, he’d have a ready audience in all of those tea-party people whose movement got its start with [Paul’s Dec. 16, 2007] money bomb. The tea-party types actually like listening to lectures about fiscal responsibility. Early in the 2008 campaign, Paul seemed to bore even his base with all that talk about the Federal Reserve. It sounded esoteric.
Once the financial bubble burst, though, monetary policy was a hot topic among conservatives. Throw in trillion-dollar deficits and the Fed’s policy of “quantitative easing” in the years since, and suddenly every candidate’s sounding like that guy who was denouncing the Fed in Philly four years ago.
And consider this quote on foreign policy: “We shouldn’t go to war so carelessly. When we do, the wars don’t end.”
Did Haley Barbour say that just the other day? Probably. But Ron said it first, in that Fox News debate four years ago when the Republicans were ready to run him out of town on a rail. That same rail will be a crowded one this year. And I for one can’t wait to see who is on it.
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Gary North says: Bring the Troops Home by the Fourth of July
North concludes:
Doug Casey calls this the forever war. It therefore is the forever deficit — “forever” meaning “until the Federal government goes bankrupt.”
Not forever.
Sooner than the voters think.
http://www.garynorth.com/public/7965.cfm<>
Justin Raimondo on the death of bin Laden
Raimondo asks an important question:
It took us ten years, and trillions of dollars, to track down and eliminate a single man. Although we eventually got our man, who was the real winner in this battle?
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The Price for bin Laden’s life
Anthony Gregory’s piece is thoughtful as usual. Read the entire article.
Hundreds of thousands of innocents have died years before their time. Tens of thousands of American soldiers have been killed, maimed and psychologically scarred for life. Priceless liberties have been trashed. The United States has waged military operations, major and minor, in Afghanistan, the Philippines, Iraq, Somalia, Yemen, Pakistan, and Libya. Trillions of dollars in resources have been squandered and destroyed.
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