A big media day for Congressman Paul on Thursday! C-SPAN, CNN, MSNBC 12/3/09

[purplechoe]

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Ron Paul Interviews

Posted by Matt Hawes on 12/02/09 6:09 PM
Last updated 12/02/09 6:27 PM


A big media day for Congressman Paul on Thursday!

First, Dr. Paul will be interviewed on CSPAN's Washington Journal at 9:00 am eastern. He will also appear on The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer later that day (time TBD).

Additionally, Congressman Paul will be on MSNBC at 10:30 am eastern, and CNN Money will have an interview with him as the main feature on their website tomorrow.

Tune in and check it out!

[kahless]

I agree with Ron's talking points on Afghanistan-Pakistan but hope someone asks him about the safety of Pakistan nukes. Maybe he has a solution like just having our troops pulling out and leaving a contingent for these facilities, but I just have not heard it yet.

For example question: Dr Paul, we may have put the Pakistani nukes at risk by being over there but what is done is done, so how now can we just walk away and leave them at risk?

[coyote_sprit]

Pakistan has had nukes for 10 years and have yet to use them, on the other hand we had them for a month back in 1945 and...

[kahless]

Pakistan has had nukes for 10 years and have yet to use them, on the other hand we had them for a month back in 1945 and...

Which is irrelevant since the issue is Pakistan losing control the facilities to the Taliban or Al Qeada. Without us being there to help Pakistan defend these facilities the concern is Pakistan will lose control of the nuke facilities and they will fall into Taliban or Al Qeada hands.

For some reason this has suddenly become been absent from the discussion.

[RM918]

Which is irrelevant since the issue is Pakistan losing control the facilities to the Taliban or Al Qeada. Without us being there to help Pakistan defend these facilities the concern is Pakistan will lose control of the nuke facilities and they will fall into Taliban or Al Qeada hands.

For some reason this has suddenly become been absent from the discussion.

The concern is that us being there is, in fact, the motivation for them to get said nukes. Do you think all these guys just got up one day and decided to engage in an extremely dangerous guerrilla campaign very likely to get them killed, against the most militarily intimidating nation in the world? No, the reason for their strength, and the reason for their motivation would be us imposing our will on the region and killing their friends and family. If we get out, there will still be Al Qaeda, there will still be Taliban, but they will not nearly be so strong.

Without the continuing and obvious threat - us - there is now decidedly little motivation for men to get themselves killed. The extremist factions will shrink and they won't have the clout or the ability to be much of a threat. It'll take time, certainly, but our continued presence is merely going to continue to embolden them.

I can see only two ways for this to end in our favor, either we withdraw and get rid of the primary reason for extremist recruiting, or we purge the whole fucking region. There's no way inbetween as far as military force is concerned, because that's what military force is all about. Militaries in action destroy and nothing else, playing knightly crusader for Democracy and puppies isn't going to cut it if we're serious about being unflinching evil bastards.