LizF
07-02-2007, 05:37 AM
http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070702/OPINION0101/707020307/1012/OPINION
Mentions RP in the NH debate:
"Each of the other candidates in turn backed the shoot-first, regret-later doctrine, with one exception, Texas Rep. Ron Paul, the only GOP candidate who voted against authorizing the use of force in Iraq.
"We in the past have always declared war in the defense of our liberties or to go to the aid of somebody," he said. "But now we have accepted the principle of pre-emptive war -- we have rejected the Just War theory of Christianity."
Though Paul is given no chance of winning the nomination, the Texas congressman has a long view, first elected in 1976. He could remember policies of containment and deterrence, begun under Truman a half-century ago, that kept at bay the Soviet Union, which had real doomsday weapons."
Mentions RP in the NH debate:
"Each of the other candidates in turn backed the shoot-first, regret-later doctrine, with one exception, Texas Rep. Ron Paul, the only GOP candidate who voted against authorizing the use of force in Iraq.
"We in the past have always declared war in the defense of our liberties or to go to the aid of somebody," he said. "But now we have accepted the principle of pre-emptive war -- we have rejected the Just War theory of Christianity."
Though Paul is given no chance of winning the nomination, the Texas congressman has a long view, first elected in 1976. He could remember policies of containment and deterrence, begun under Truman a half-century ago, that kept at bay the Soviet Union, which had real doomsday weapons."