Ron Paul Says Drone Strikes ‘Make More Enemies’
6th November 2011
Presidential candidate Ron Paul said Sunday that the CIA’s drone campaign in Pakistan was making the U.S. less safe.
“It makes things worse,” said Mr. Paul, the Texas congressman running for the Republican presidential nomination. “Sometimes they miss. Sometimes there is collateral damage. And every time we do that, we make more enemies.”
I like Ron Paul’s domestic policies, but in foreign policy he’s still off in batshit-crazy land where live the radical libertarians and Pat Buchananites.
1. Every drone strike targets an enemy of the United States. I fail to see how killing enemies of the United States is a bad thing.
2. Hey, Ron, wake up and smell the hummus — they’re Muslims. Muslims are already our enemies, either in esse or in posse — read the Koran if you don’t believe me. To the extent that drone strikes convert passive enemies into active enemies, it helps us identify them … and kill them. The only good enemy is a dead enemy, and it’s better to kill them on somebody else’s turf than here at home.
Those who do not learn from history are doomed to run for President, apparently.