sailingaway
06-22-2011, 01:00 PM
With President Obama set to announce the start of a troop withdrawal from Afghanistan Wednesday night, Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul already knows it will be inadequate from his perspective.
“I don't want to hear that he's going to bring 5,000 troops home or 10,000 troops. We need to have a significant change in foreign policy, which means that all the troops come home and turn that country back over to the Afghans. And let them deal with it,” Paul, a Republican congressman from Texas, told us on ABC’s “Top Line” today.
Paul brushed aside concerns about an increased terrorist threat if U.S. troops leave, arguing that a complete withdrawal from Afghanistan will actually make the U.S. safer.
“We'll have less danger to us if we don't occupy foreign countries, because that's the top motivation for the desire to come here and kill Americans -- is because we've invaded their land,” Paul said. “What if another country did that to us? Every American would be together. If the Chinese did to us what we do to other countries, no American would say, ‘Aw, that's okay, they're nice people. Maybe we can learn their culture and their religion.’ It would be insane.”
more at link and it is all worth reading.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2011/06/ron-paul-nothing-for-us-to-be-gained-by-leaving-troops-in-afghanistan.html
Does anyone have the video of this interview, by the way?
“I don't want to hear that he's going to bring 5,000 troops home or 10,000 troops. We need to have a significant change in foreign policy, which means that all the troops come home and turn that country back over to the Afghans. And let them deal with it,” Paul, a Republican congressman from Texas, told us on ABC’s “Top Line” today.
Paul brushed aside concerns about an increased terrorist threat if U.S. troops leave, arguing that a complete withdrawal from Afghanistan will actually make the U.S. safer.
“We'll have less danger to us if we don't occupy foreign countries, because that's the top motivation for the desire to come here and kill Americans -- is because we've invaded their land,” Paul said. “What if another country did that to us? Every American would be together. If the Chinese did to us what we do to other countries, no American would say, ‘Aw, that's okay, they're nice people. Maybe we can learn their culture and their religion.’ It would be insane.”
more at link and it is all worth reading.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2011/06/ron-paul-nothing-for-us-to-be-gained-by-leaving-troops-in-afghanistan.html
Does anyone have the video of this interview, by the way?