That’s just silly. First you are overestimating the damage a nuclear device would cause. You could cut out entire states from the US and we would still survive. Verizon won’t build a cell phone network in the remaining states? All engineers are located in just one city? NY is gone so we can’t… do what? Perhaps if we saved 250 billion dollars or more every year we could more effectively ensure our ability to recovery from such a catastrophe.

Second, you imply that more technology is the goal of life. If creating ever more intertwined and fragile technology will require us to police the world and circumvent the freedoms we enjoy, perhaps we should resist that technology in favor of something more discrete and freedom-preserving.

[Technology and advancement are perfectly conducive and compatible with security and prosperity.]

There is no perfect security in this world. Even if nukes did not exist bio-weapons could SELECTIVELY kill billions. Ron Paul believes in a strong DEFENSE but also in not CREATING enemies in the first place.

The rest of your comment is target rich but I should not be greedy and I am tired besides.

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1109/prayer_coverage.php3

And Rep. John Shimkus, R-Ill., who sponsored the provision in the House and whose district includes a Christian Science school, Principia College, said, “Those religious traditions that utilize nontraditional care … should have them covered in any health care bill.”

First, I was not misrepresenting Ilana – I was representing Ron Paul’s view of foreign policy. I have read and heard him speak often (not live) and I think that what I said above is as accurate a summary of his views as possible in a few sentences.

I would say we are in mortal danger because it would take only one successful effort at exploding a nuke over some part of the US to knock us back into the 1800s. Nothing in the Paul foreign policy platform eradicates this possibility. (Unless I missed it – if so please provide me with a URL.) Preemption provides that attempt.

I am an Independent. I am no sycophant of any political party.

I support removal of most military bases from foreign soil – but some alliances require some of these. I support a border fence with Mexico, as I do the Israeli fence. I support bringing back our factories to US soil. I support a flat tax with no lower income limit – everyone should share in the funding of our society as best they can.

It is just common sense that we should solve problems when they are small. There were people in the early 1930s – I believe Churchill – who wanted to see a French and British expeditionary force remove Hitler. France had just cause due to Hitler’s violations of the Treaty of Versailles. How would the world have evolved without Hitler and WWII? I believe that the Ron Pauls of the day, in the US and in Europe, prevailed, allowing Hitler to grow to the point that there was not choice.

And even when there was full-scale war in Europe, the US was still hesitant to do more than send money and arms – not realizing that the Atlantic and Pacific were not buffers. The Japanese proved that with Pearl Harbor.

The main difference between now and then is that the US was safe for a few years (remember Hitler was not far behind the US in the creation of an A-Bomb) so it could militarize our industry and put millions into arms. We had a buffer for a while then.

Today, there is no buffer. Our society sits on many layers of technology. Take away that technology and our society comes to a stand-still. The more technology, the more vulnerable we are. No cell phones, no energy, no food.

And while we could retaliate by eliminating the country from which such an attack on us emanated, we would still be in the 1800s. Horse-drawn carriage anyone?

Yes, space engineering. Our hope for the future, but unfortunately, not in my lifetime.

And let me say – I love all of you, but – even though the US has not been so effective in foreign affairs (except for winning the Cold War thanks to Reagan) I am right about foreign policy.

LOL! Could I use this quote on my Facebook page?

[Sure. give us a link]

What is interesting it the check out the website that RAN (above) had – it was celebrating the drug bust of some Corzine flunky in NJ. Well, frankly, no real libertarian should be celebrating the War on Drugs.

I have followed the Republicans for 40 + years from Rockefeller’s spending to Nixon’s wage and price controls to Reagan’s drug wars to Bush’s massive deficits/wars/suppression of civil liberties….. – Going down that route is just an alternative path to statist oblivion and bankruptcy.

P.S. Haym is wrong on foreign policy. [Alas, despite his brilliance—Hayim is a professor of space engineering, or something impossible.]

We have the Pacific Ocean as one border, the Atlantic as another, the Gulf of Mexico and Mexico as another and friendly Canada to the North. Communism has fallen, China is our biggest trading partner, we have by far the strongest military in the world AND WE ARE STILL IN MORTAL DANGER?!

Does everyone else in the world except Israel and maybe Europe have to be dead before we feel safe?

Before we blame the world for terrorism, how about we get our military bases off their soil?

Ron Paul is the wisest man you are ever likely to encounter. He is correct in every way I can think of. He is hacking at the very roots of evil.

Missing link? [The Primate family]

“It’s no use, but here’s my two-cents: “ Ilana Mercer

It is worth far more than two cents. I voted for Bush in 2000 but by 2004 abstained and by 2008 wrote in Ron Paul. I think you had a lot to do with that. I now agree with you so much it is almost boring to me but you were there way ahead of me. Thank you very much. I told what’s his name at World Net Daily that you were his best. I have out grown him and Ann Coulter but there is no outgrowing you apparently.

I do my own thinking even if I risk your wrath so you know I don’t flatter (much).

[Thanks; means a lot]

Won’t work this time with me. The Republicans will never take on the banking cartel. Plus, how can they ever live down Lincoln? Best just let that party dissolve and a new third party pick up the pieces. We can survive the Democrats in the meantime.
I won’t be fooled again by the Republican Party.