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	Name:	MartiniMan -
	Subject:	Not exactly my point...
	Date:	1/6/2012 9:12:41 AM

You act as if our involvement or lack of involvement outside our borders has any bearing on what threatens us. Do you really think we should let Iran obtain nuclear weapons and they won't use them? Do you really think we should just sit back and allow the middle east to be controlled by Islamofascists and it will have no bearing on our national security? That is the Ron Paul head in the sand approach and it is naive and dangerous. Everyone who subscribes to this approach acts like it is a novel idea and has never been tried. We tried it before WWI and look where it got us. We tried it before WWII and viola, the same result. We built up our military strength after Jimmy Carter's disastrous presidency and lo and behold, the Soviet empire collapsed without having to fire a shot. From that Bill Clinton took advantage of a huge peace dividend and followed the GOP controlled Congress to balance the budget. History is rife with the results of military weakness and the millions of lives lost as a result. I am one that believes that we can avoid repeating the mistake of the past over and over again and do it responsibly.

As for the shot at conservatives let me help you understand so there is no doubt where we stand and why there is no contradiction. We believe in the wisdom of the founding fathers that created a federal government with limited and enumerated powers. One of those and the only one relegated solely to the federal government is the national defense. It is the first and most important responsibility. So if you ask me where the cuts should occur I would instantly say in all the areas of federal government that go beyond its true purpose and if we did that we not only would be able to significantly cut taxes but also pay for as much national defense as we wanted. Unlike Rick Perry I would have no problem giving you a list....in fact, I would give you the list of agencies I would keep......it will be shorter.

So don't ask me to cut $1 trillion from our national defense while we continue to spend $4 trillion on entitlement programs and other discretionary spending that were never intended to be the role of the federal government. The only contradiction is with neo-isolationists that are willing to weaken our national security to save a few bucks while ignoring the elephant in the room which is out of control federal spending on entitlement programs and federal agencies that should have never been created in the first place. Ron Paul is a nut....and a dangerous one at that. The only person more dangerous than him in the WH is the current occupant.